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Quote from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2426727.ece

Supermarkets should be banned from offering customers free parking and goods sold below cost price, a Conservative policy group is to suggest.

Note how the Conservatives have grouped two issues together.

Why don’t these people just admit it that this crackpot (with acknowledgment to Tealeaf for the loan of his word) scheme is just another way of saying, “the working classes have got above their station and they should not have cars? They should be forced to use the public transport instead. That would leave the roads empty for the use of the upper classes.” Congestion sorted at a stroke.

A supermarket owns all the land where the building is situated, including the car park and no one, but no one should be able to enforce car-parking charges that go into the local authority coffers.

The supermarkets, being money-grabbing institutions, would undoubtedly have thought of this point and dismissed it because their customers wouldn’t wear it and they would lose business.

There is no doubt that supermarkets have badly affected the ‘in town’ local shops but the local authorities have compounded the problem by continually increasing the business rates in town centres. And now the Tories are spreading their money tentacles wider and wider whilst at the same time pushing you and me further and further into a corner where they can exercise ultimate control over us.