"Nick" wrote in message
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> So he should have been more careful. What do you want?
What *I* want is for our tax-funded officials to focus on the things which
matter. This car was clearly off-road w9ithin the intent of the
legislation - the 2" overhang is itself a dubious claim in view of the
caselaw on parking and start/stop points of yellow lines (the nearest
parallel). There was no indication that there was even a suspicion that the
car had been driven on the public road, or that it constituted any danger to
the public, or that any tax was being evaded. The attention of the
tax-funded officials should have been entirely on those cars which were
being driven without tax/insurance/MoT (or any permutation of same).
This is clearly a leadership failure - a culture of gestapoism is being
allowed to develop in the supervisory level of these departments, and we
need a few voltairian executions to persuade the others to behave. The
supervisors who defend such actions should be sacked and should be placed
under a life-time prohibition of holding posts which weild any authority
over the public as they are clearly behaviourally unsuitable for the role.
Public floggings and the odd stake-burning might help get the message
accross that such flagrant abuse of powers will not be tollerated.
PDR
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