“Yes there are Roman Catholics there. I wonder why the weird assault if this was legal parking, or even partly legal parking.”
It wasn’t legal, they parked on the red line which is no parking. It wasn’t any plot to persecute Christians.
Well if it was so then it was so. I don’t know the whole background. I’d hope that church parking zones would be accommodated on Sundays. Britain would profit from the presence of more Christians that serious, not less.
Assumes facts not in evidence. Is this same enforcement taking place outside of CoE buildings or Mosques?
Assuming you're correct...that it was a *clearly* marked "no parking" zone...then perhaps it's OK.But at the very least they could have let the folks who had handicapped placards off with just a warning.
Do they do this outside mosques on Friday?
It seems that previously, parking had been permitted on this street, but had been recently made into a “red route.” Although it had a severe impact on the church and its parishioners, no one consulted with the church, or even bothered to formally inform the church or its parishioners, of the change.
Then the first Sunday this went into effect, the government sent a large force of welfare-takers..., er..., “traffic wardens” to make lots of extra revenue for the government. As there was significant confusion among the parishioners, and some number of them parked there because they were handicapped and could not readily walk from the further-out, now-only-legal-parking, they believed an exception had been granted for them.
But rather than trying to work things out in a way that produced comity and understanding, the arrogant slob welfare-takers, er..., “traffic wardens” wrote up the tickets anyway.
Arrogant bastard government at work for an arrogant bastard government that is quickly losing its legitimacy.
Come the revolution, folks will kill ‘em all (government workers) and let God sort ‘em out.
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The red line is new, only two weeks old, the church not notified. Is it a good policy to redline a church? And surely the first week of enforcement might be better handled by warnings rather than tickets.
One also notes that the parking enforcement team are immigrants - the neighborhood bobby with a relationship to the locals is long gone.
I don’t know if people with handicapped placards are allowed to park on a red line in England - some of the church goers seem to be saying they may.