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WillowTheWhisp · 20-07-2007, 15:37

OK Jambutty, you are obviously missing the point I tried to make so will admit that maybe I didn't make it very well. I'll try again:

I said that disabled badge holders don't have an automatic right to park anywhere. That's a fact. They don't. They don't have the right to park in certain restricted areas under any circumstances, disabled badge or no disabled badge.

Jimbob argued that "yes they do" provided they use the badge they can park anywhere they like for 3 hours and then went on to prove his point by quoting from a website - the very quotation which he used was actually backing up what I'd said that in fact they don't have the right to park anywhere. That right is restricted in two specific instances. I repeated the quotation and highlighted in red those two specific instances in order to clarify my point that simply having a blue badge does not entitle someone to park just anywhere for 3 hours.

He'd contradicted his viewpoint by the quotation he'd provided in order to support it? Do you understand now? Or are you still determined to argue that I don't know what I'm talking about?

Why are you so adamant that I am a stubborn know it all who is refusing to admit she is wrong when in fact I am not actually, in this specific instance, wrong. If I am wrong I will admit to being wrong and if I have misled anyone with any false information I will apologise but I have known disabled badge holders get booked for parking where they shouldn't and argue the toss that they are within their rights because they have a blue (or previously it was orange) badge.

The second paragraph was a follow-up to other points in the thread on the subject of the free transport which is available which I have agreed is a Godsend for those for whom it is applicable. It isn't relevant for everyone. If it were there wouldn't be a need for a car park for patients at all would there?

In the beginning I was in support of your view about the unfairness of the charges for disabled patients but having read some of the valid points put forward by others I am now beginning to see it from a different point of view. Isn't that allowed? Am I not permitted to change my mind based on information and points put forward by other people? I thought that was the whole purpose of a sensible adult debate not a symptom of 'the Kindergarten attitude'.

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WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: Hospital Disabled Parking Charges. OK Jambutty, you are obviously missing the point I tried to make so will admit that maybe I didn't make it very well. I'll try again: I said that disabled badge holders don't have an automatic right to park anywhere. That's a fact. They don't. They don't have the right to park in certain restricted areas under any circumstances, disabled badge or no disabled badge. Jimbob argued that "yes they do" provided they use the badge they can park anywhere they like for 3 hours and then went on to prove his point by quoting from a website - the very quotation which he used was actually backing up what I'd said that in fact they don't have the right to park anywhere. That right is restricted in two specific instances. I repeated the quotation and highlighted in red those two specific instances in order to clarify my point that simply having a blue badge does not entitle someone to park just anywhere for 3 hours. He'd contradicted his viewpoint by the quotation he'd provided in order to support it? Do you understand now? Or are you still determined to argue that I don't know what I'm talking about? Why are you so adamant that I am a stubborn know it all who is refusing to admit she is wrong when in fact I am not actually, in this specific instance, wrong. If I am wrong I will admit to being wrong and if I have misled anyone with any false information I will apologise but I have known disabled badge holders get booked for parking where they shouldn't and argue the toss that they are within their rights because they have a blue (or previously it was orange) badge. The second paragraph was a follow-up to other points in the thread on the subject of the free transport which is available which I have agreed is a Godsend for those for whom it is applicable. It isn't relevant for everyone. If it were there wouldn't be a need for a car park for patients at all would there? In the beginning I was in support of your view about the unfairness of the charges for disabled patients but having read some of the valid points put forward by others I am now beginning to see it from a different point of view. Isn't that allowed? Am I not permitted to change my mind based on information and points put forward by other people? I thought that was the whole purpose of a sensible adult debate not a symptom of 'the Kindergarten attitude'. __________________