Cllr Ian Parsons

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True. On top of that, MAGA folks will finally wake up and realise that Trump lied to them about jobs coming back.

Retribution awaits.

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on

Corruption in plain sight and on an industrial scale. The GOP will live to regret letting the Orange Man-Baby do all of this.
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Maybe it's because we get fed a load of American football posts.

"Regardless of whether Vehicle Excise Duty goes towards hospitals, schools, pensions or motorway expansion, the name ‘road tax’ has stuck, and it’s mandatory for the vast majority of cars, with payments taken annually, bi-annually or monthly".
Goodbye, keep well.

You should be embarrassed. You won't be, because you are on a wind-up. Goodbye.

From government website:

What is car tax?
Car tax, often called road tax, is a levy the Government charges to people who run cars. Originally called the Road Fund Licence and intended to finance highways.

Call it what you like. We have some of the most deprived people in the whole of the UK in our city, so we don't feel like meting out too much punishment on innocent citizens; unlike the Tories who deliberately defunded us.

They don't have drives. We didn't charge for parking permits, but now we do. We have some of the most deprived Wards in the whole country. People are allowed to park on roads because they pay road tax. But you know that, don't you?

Political life is somewhat more complicated than that, as well you know. We have had to make some incredibly difficult decisions since we were starved of finance by the Tories (£350 million a year), such as charging for resident parking permits; so more emotive policies are difficult at present.

Easy, when the opposition didn't have a SINGLE shot on target.

I haven't, but then again I am a humble backbencher. I will consider proposing it, though.

You have to drive on to it. Driving on pavements is primarily about driving fairly long distances on one. I've known people do this in order to queue jump further down the road.

Yes, designed for either pedestrian access, such as pushchairs and wheelchairs, but also to allow access to driveways.

I would certainly vote for it. It wasn't a substantive motion, so it was not proposed, nor put to the vote. Each Party expressed their views on the subject. One of the Party's needs to propose it and then it would get voted on.

Dropped kerbs, so they are allowed to.

True.

Parking on pavements is not illegal, driving on them is.

Keep well.

We had a debate about it a couple of meetings ago. There are parts of Bradford where the roads are really narrow, so it would be impractical to have a blanket ban. It may well come in, in the future.

If you had explained that you were in London, and said that it was illegal in London, I wouldn't have commented at all. I simply stated the truth. I also believe that pavement parking should be made illegal everywhere.

Sadly, it's not illegal in Bradford: YET.

It's NOT illegal in Bradford. Some streets are so narrow no-one could get through if people didn't park partly on the pavement. You need access for emergency vehicles. Sarcasm doesn't become you, this isn't X, is it?

Local by-laws determine whether it is allowed to park with wheels on pavements. You are correct on time restrictions.

Unfortunately, it is legal. If the line is dashed and not solid it is legal to park over a bike lane.

England are so predictable. Usual boring rubbish; no pace in the game, no guile.

I find it funny that Daniel Levy never, ever, sacks himself from a role to which, based on recent history, he is eminently unsuited.

Arise, Sir David, for services to tax avoidance.