Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I can't
**** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport Charge'
added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I will end up
in a profit situation.

I'm seriously thinking of standing as an independent ward councillor, just
to cause panic, chaos & disorder.


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
. uk...
Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I
can't **** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport
Charge' added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I
will end up in a profit situation.

I'm seriously thinking of standing as an independent ward councillor, just
to cause panic, chaos & disorder.

Do it! The last thing they want is an independent up setting their
applecart.

Andy

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport Charge'
added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I will end up
in a profit situation.
So in effect you are making other taxpayers compensate you for your
inability to comply with parking regulations. Nice.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:41:36 UTC, "AA"
wrote:


The Medway Handyman wrote:

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport Charge'
added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I will end up
in a profit situation.
So in effect you are making other taxpayers compensate you for your
inability to comply with parking regulations. Nice.

Do you know exactly what the situation was? Or are you guessing?

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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
. uk...
Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I
can't
**** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport
Charge'
added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I will end
up
in a profit situation.

I'm seriously thinking of standing as an independent ward councillor, just
to cause panic, chaos & disorder.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257



Since you have a contract with the council,have you thought of asking them
for a universal parking permit stating work is being done for the council?

Huge wrote:


Have you been a pompous **** all your life, or have you come to it
recently?

Actually, I was born that way. Have you been deprived of a sense of
humor all your life or did it lake lots of practice?

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
. uk...
Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I
can't **** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport
Charge' added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I
will end up in a profit situation.

I'm seriously thinking of standing as an independent ward councillor, just
to cause panic, chaos & disorder.

Getting money out of the Mudway councils is probably harder than getting the
Queen to shag the late Pope.
Given that most guvmint departments don't know their arse from the elbow
simply do as you suggest and then when sufficiently in pocket announce to
them in a polite letter that your charges will now include parking fees, as
well as transport, inconvenience rate and callout charge too.
Watch the corporate bean counters blanch then

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
. uk...
Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I
can't **** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport
Charge' added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I
will end up in a profit situation.

In which case, why aren't you charging them that already? You're clearly
undervaluing your services to them.

Of course if you're not, they've got the option of going elsewhere.

clive

"Andy" wrote in message
...

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
. uk...
Alas, I had no time to go to the bank & get the required change, so I
can't **** off the muppets at the parking office.

However I am a contractor to the local council, albeit only three jobs in
the last year.

Next job I get (and all subsequent ones) will have a £30 'Transport
Charge' added to the bill. They just pay what I invoice them for, so I
will end up in a profit situation.

I'm seriously thinking of standing as an independent ward councillor,
just to cause panic, chaos & disorder.

Do it! The last thing they want is an independent up setting their
applecart.

Andy
I'm not certain just which 'they' you're referring to.

However; entering oneself as an 'Independent's candidate in a local election
is not easy.
The legislation to study is the 'Representation of the Peoples Act' which
must be followed.

The starting hurdle is to obtain nominations (ten electors resident (on the
roll) in that ward.
Raising the deposit - which an independent is most certainly going to
forfeit. _AND_ careful accounting of all expenditures in your campaign -
which has a maximum limit - plus the 'report' of such expense to the
Returning Officer within a specified period after the election . Without a
notarised statement you will need to attend at the Returning Officer's
premise, by appointment, and testify to the accuracy. Any' expenditure'
prior to an election being declared is an offence against the RoPA. You'll
understand that failing to report is itself an offence
[You'll observe that 'party' aspirants are always careful to denote
themselves as the _prospective_ candidate for
Ward/District/County/Constituency/Region to avoid this trap; thus all
expenditures occur after they've been 'adopted'. It _might_ be inferred
that the subscription to a an ISP utilised to make the declaration of
intended candidacy is a chargeable amount against the permitted maximum.
Now, IANAL; but 'I know a man who is ... and after a Scottish MP wrote to
the fuzz.... well, ask Tone and his tennis partner about unaccounted monies
!

Usually when somebody is an 'Independent's candidate; they have an
organisation behind and backing them. Of course the M****** Handy*** may
just be willing to be a 'paper candidate' - one entered with no hope of
winning - but he'll probably be subject to a lot of scrutiny from the
established political parties - not to mention the Traffic Wardens- !

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Brian