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Dont get me wrong i think they should be NO charge too.
Im just woundering what road tax is for when you still have to pay to park!!!!

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Thanks for the link Bonnyboy, as for the proof I am as wise as you but it really gets my goat things like this!!

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Surly the hospital grounds are owned by the goverment... NHS is so there carparks should be... OOH WAIT i guess they could be owned by ppl like NCP
LOL a blond moment! even tho im not blond :D

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Well that’s what you get when the government wastes our taxes on illegal wars, replenishing a nuclear deterrent that we cannot use without the permission of the yanks, to name just 2, and then cannot afford to build new hospitals, so turns to the biggest con of modern times the PFI.

Hospital staff should not be charged for parking and there should be adequate space for them to do so. And if the staff car park is full, the staff should be able to park in the visitor’s car park without a charge.

In fact there should be no parking fee for attending a hospital whether as a patient, visitor or staff.

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Spot on JB, as I've said before its a tax on the sick, but only the English sick that is, its a time we got back to all for one and one for all, this different rules for different areas is a total nonsense, just like the drugs post code, mind you that will be put right by the 4th NHS shake up in 11 years, so I'm not holding my breathe:(

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This PFI business in building new hospitals, school etc is nothing more than a sneaky way of siphoning taxpayers’ money into the private pocket.

And now the government is promoting Policlinics. Are they going to be yet another PFI initiative?

Maybe Policlinics should be a thread on its own?

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I’ve just renewed my Blue Badge and it arrived today complete with a rather snazzy booklet.

Under “Who can use your badge?” it clearly states:
“Do not allow other people to use your badge to do something on your behalf such as shopping or collecting something for you, unless you are travelling with them.”

Garinda you were one of a number of people who continually made snide remarks about me when my grandson went into a store to buy something on my behalf whilst I sat in my car.

I did nothing wrong so up yours jerk!

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My, my.

What a temper!

Is that your little feet I hear stamping?

If you took the time to read back what was actually posted, you'll notice myself, and others, never said you were doing anything illegal.

Comment was passed that by you sitting in your car in a designated disabled space, whilst your able bodied passenger went about your business, that this was morally wrong.

I still think this selfish use of your parking badge is morally wrong.

Your selfish actions might mean a disabled person, who was trying to do their own errands, could be prevented from doing so.

Whichever way you wish to dress up what you did, to me it is morally reprehensible, and shows scant regard for other people's needs.

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I do so pity those poor souls, who through possession of a poor vocabulary, need to resort to abuse...which by the way is against forum rules.;)

Out with anger, in with love.:)

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Well Rindi I've had blue badge long enough to rememer when they were orange, and to me the rules must have changed, I was and for that matter still am, of the opinion that to park in a disabled space the badge holder must not be in the care, otherwise why bother with a badge in the first place, its meant to allow disabled people access to shops and other buildngs not sit there whilst some one able bodied gets out and does the errands or tasks on behalf of the badge older, to me thats just a nonsense

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I agree with you but he wont. It may be legal but it does not make it right.

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Well if it's legal it must be right,these are the rules we live by.:confused: I never got a parking ticket till I got a blue badge,I've had two now. both of which were repealed(smart arsed traffic wardens):tongueout

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I went last week for an xray and used the car park.
I could walk in without an appointment so had decided that if there were traffic jams on the way, or the car park was full, I could turn back and go another time.

There were spaces and no jams, so I parked.
I was back out in under an hour - cost £1.80.

My problem arose when I tried to find the way out.
I saw a set of barriers and made my way towards them only to find that they were only a way in.

After a 3 point turn I found that I had to negotiate the whole car park area, proceed in the opposite direction to the road markings, cross some empty parking spaces before I found the exit barriers.

Has anyone else had this problem or am I getting senile? :D