'Football terrace' abuse to parking warden 'scared' councillor (From Bucks Free Press)

It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it!
Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote:
It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it! Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

And its funny how theres never a traffic warden around the mosques on a friday - but always hanging around the catholic church on a sunday!!

I can't understand how anybody could do the job personally however unfortunately the public take out their frustrations on the people doing the job when it should be the idiot Councillors and Council Officeers who are directing them. The wardens get it from both sides, they are routinely asked to disregfard the law and keep issuing tickets despite knowing that they are breaking the law by doing so, then they get the crap from the public.

Lastly, the reason why it is being passed to a private company, is that Buckinghamshire county council have once again cocked up by attempting to delegate powers to other Councils, it has to be Bucks CC that determine formal appeals and they haven't been doing it, despite the Traffic Management act requiring them to.

LoggedOn wrote:

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote:
It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it! Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

And its funny how theres never a traffic warden around the mosques on a friday - but always hanging around the catholic church on a sunday!!

The parking restrictions on Rutland Avenue around the mosque are fairly lax, whilst around St Augustine's on Amersham Hill (I assumed that's the catholic church you mean) there is understandably no parking allowed on the road. Meanwhile those at Our Lady of Grace in Booker can (and do) park where they like on Squirrel Lane and Ash Road on the rare occasion the car park fills up!

Trying to spin this as some sort of case of one religious/racial group getting preferential treatment is quite frankly pathetic.

I have to call "bull" on this. Apart from the problem that this guy is a politician so what he's reported as saying is open to question: both in fact and of exaggeration. If he really is so sensitive and easily shocked, how did he ever get into local politics in the first place (or maybe this is his first time, in which case it doesn't sound like he'll last all that long). I also suspect there's some pandering to the parking wardens' cause going on too.

The other thing that he should take into account, apart from going crying to the local paper, is that if, as he says, the hostility to parking wardens is across the spectrum and IS as common as he makes out - doesn't that tell him something about the universal level of dissatisfaction (for want of a better term) with the parking arrangements? If on the one-hand he has 70% of the people against a situation and on the other he has a group of officials, doesn't it at least bear consideration that maybe the 70% do actually have a grievance worth investigating - rather than whinging at them for expressing it?

When were you caught out then Crissy?

BigTommy wrote:
When were you caught out then Crissy?

Ha ha, no. I'm a decent law-abiding citizen (who prefers to go shopping in places that have adequate parking facilities). It just annoys me that this guy has taken a local issue that a lot of people obviously have very strong feelings about and made the whole thing about him. We learn a lot about this politician: his height, his children, how "sensitive" he appears to be, yet we learn nothing about what he intends to do to make parking easier. Why can't we leave all the personality trivia behind and judge these politicians by their actions, rather than their fawning sermonising?

I don't think our Councillors get out much

I agree with Crissy. My first thought was that if so many people are that angry, then the traffic warden must be unreasonabley strict. This is bourne out by her having a row with someone dropping of his mother at a bank, surely engaging in conversation only added to a potential obstuction which was no doubt only there for seconds.

crissy , marlow wrote:
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I also suspect there's some pandering to the parking wardens' cause going on too..
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Yes , why is it that only councillors are allowed to park on those type of crossings ? Sometimes ordinary people or other animals end up with two black eyes.
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It does make me cross , crissy.

This kind of attitude disgusts me. A warden is doing their job, the system may have faults but it is not the wardens fault. As soon as someone is remotely abusive the wardens should immediately give them a ticket, taking a photo of the driver/car together.

billsheppard wrote:

LoggedOn wrote:

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote: It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it! Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

And its funny how theres never a traffic warden around the mosques on a friday - but always hanging around the catholic church on a sunday!!

The parking restrictions on Rutland Avenue around the mosque are fairly lax, whilst around St Augustine's on Amersham Hill (I assumed that's the catholic church you mean) there is understandably no parking allowed on the road. Meanwhile those at Our Lady of Grace in Booker can (and do) park where they like on Squirrel Lane and Ash Road on the rare occasion the car park fills up! Trying to spin this as some sort of case of one religious/racial group getting preferential treatment is quite frankly pathetic.

Why is this pathetic? Perhaps these people feel that there actually IS some kind of prejudice going on that is race / religious related? Ever thought of that?
Why just because it is not a Muslim or other ethnic minority that is crying 'racism' is it immediatley shot down in flames by the likes of yourself? Cannot indigeonous people to this country feel they are themselves penalised due to their race and stand up and say so without ridicule? If not why not? Every other race is able to scream RACISM when it benefits them, why not the white Englishman? Is it fact now that this just not an option for him and only the 'select'?...........
.......... That is what I call pathetic!!!

billsheppard wrote:

LoggedOn wrote:

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote: It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it! Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

And its funny how theres never a traffic warden around the mosques on a friday - but always hanging around the catholic church on a sunday!!

The parking restrictions on Rutland Avenue around the mosque are fairly lax, whilst around St Augustine's on Amersham Hill (I assumed that's the catholic church you mean) there is understandably no parking allowed on the road. Meanwhile those at Our Lady of Grace in Booker can (and do) park where they like on Squirrel Lane and Ash Road on the rare occasion the car park fills up! Trying to spin this as some sort of case of one religious/racial group getting preferential treatment is quite frankly pathetic.

What sort of racist am I???

Is there a new pizza cult?

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote:

billsheppard wrote:

LoggedOn wrote:

Steve Totteridge Hill wrote: It's a tough job...but it's funny how the pizza shop in castle street HW get away with it! Maybe somebody from the BFP would go take a look...try from about 1600hrs onwards.

And its funny how theres never a traffic warden around the mosques on a friday - but always hanging around the catholic church on a sunday!!

The parking restrictions on Rutland Avenue around the mosque are fairly lax, whilst around St Augustine's on Amersham Hill (I assumed that's the catholic church you mean) there is understandably no parking allowed on the road. Meanwhile those at Our Lady of Grace in Booker can (and do) park where they like on Squirrel Lane and Ash Road on the rare occasion the car park fills up! Trying to spin this as some sort of case of one religious/racial group getting preferential treatment is quite frankly pathetic.

What sort of racist am I???

Is there a new pizza cult?

There are far too many overly religious cults about, imo. It was always so and still continues to be so. Some cults are just plain silly.
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I would have thought that folk have had enough silly cults what with Parliament , MPs and so on for the time being on this planet.
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Never mind the Hereafter !

People from Marlow using abusive language? Never!
Must have been out of towners.

Yes , most Marlow people are very well known for their kindliness, generosity, good manners , thoughtfulness and usually general civilized behaviour.
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Oh and also for complacency , smugness, self satisfaction , bourgeois attitudes, and anonymous venial abuse of High Wycombe Town and its citizens via the net
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Regards
Oh and also dubious PR consultants, crooked accountants, dodgy lawyers, part-time dipsomaniacs and professional burglars.
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Oh and spontaneous outbursts of road and councillor rage

I bet the wardensn't hiding in a bush the day the politician was out, like they usually do in Marlow, pretty one-sided test!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Marlow is not that great. A few nice houses on the Bisham side of the river but the majority of the east side is chavs 'r' us. So I'm hardly surprised they were foul mouthed to the traffic warden. They just don't know any better. People do park like morons in the high street too. Especially outside the Sainsbury's.

find out where the motorist's work and give them some foot-ball terrace abuse when there trying to do there job's!

Cllr Barnes said it was an “eye opener”. Where have you been all your life mate? Get in touch with the real world ehhh!!!! Sounds again like a council not in touch and they wonder why they dont get voted in !!!!

The language you heard, you wouldn't expect on a football terrace. It was a surprise to me.”

So is a parking ticket mate!

Ifwe caught busses or walked more, there would be no problems with illegally parked cars.

If ever there were a job for Robocop then this is it - no point arguing with / swearing at an android...

How close is the technology I wonder?

Graculus wrote:
If ever there were a job for Robocop then this is it - no point arguing with / swearing at an android... How close is the technology I wonder?

But the pizza shop lads would get told to move on...you can't bribe an android.

J B Blackett wrote:
Yes , most Marlow people are very well known for their kindliness, generosity, good manners , thoughtfulness and usually general civilized behaviour. . Oh and also for complacency , smugness, self satisfaction , bourgeois attitudes, and anonymous venial abuse of High Wycombe Town and its citizens via the net . Regards Oh and also dubious PR consultants, crooked accountants, dodgy lawyers, part-time dipsomaniacs and professional burglars. . Oh and spontaneous outbursts of road and councillor rage

I take back all previous accusations of JBB sitting on the fence.
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5.9, but you could have nailed the dismount by mentioning the inferiority complex they have about not being (or living in) Henley

Ewartwhatyoubulldoze wrote:

J B Blackett wrote: Yes , most Marlow people are very well known for their kindliness, generosity, good manners , thoughtfulness and usually general civilized behaviour. . Oh and also for complacency , smugness, self satisfaction , bourgeois attitudes, and anonymous venial abuse of High Wycombe Town and its citizens via the net . Regards Oh and also dubious PR consultants, crooked accountants, dodgy lawyers, part-time dipsomaniacs and professional burglars. . Oh and spontaneous outbursts of road and councillor rage

I take back all previous accusations of JBB sitting on the fence. - 5.9, but you could have nailed the dismount by mentioning the inferiority complex they have about not being (or living in) Henley

But those Henley types don't have the access to two motorways...

Honest!
code words... road-fund

Marlow does seem to have a lot of traffic wardens - they are still out at 6.55 pm on Saturday evenings giving out tickets behind Waitrose when the parking becomes free at 7 - a bit mean!
And the travellors who took over a whole carpark for a few weeks got not a single parking ticket - while they were in residence my 79 year old mother got a ticket for being 5 mins late back to her car - no mercy for her!
By the way, it sounds like most of you are jealous of people who live in Marlow - you can all do it if you want to pay the cost of the houses there!

Ewartwhatyoubulldoze wrote:

J B Blackett wrote:
Yes , most Marlow people are very well known for their kindliness, generosity, good manners , thoughtfulness and usually general civilized behaviour. . Oh and also for complacency , smugness, self satisfaction , bourgeois attitudes, and anonymous venial abuse of High Wycombe Town and its citizens via the net . Regards Oh and also dubious PR consultants, crooked accountants, dodgy lawyers, part-time dipsomaniacs and professional burglars. . Oh and spontaneous outbursts of road and councillor rage

I take back all previous accusations of JBB sitting on the fence.
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5.9, but you could have nailed the dismount by mentioning the inferiority complex they have about not being (or living in) Henley

I'm afraid I disagree. Marlow folk, in spite of their faults, are infinitely preferable to Henley type persons. And I do know quite a few of them.
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Marlow folk tend to be average looking with the standard mix of beautiful and ugly and all stations in between. Not jealous of them at all, btw
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But People from Henley-on-Thames are unfortunately disfigured by the rather unpleasant characteristic of having two heads.
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This is caused not by in-breeding but by the fact that people who chose to live there eventually become so far 'up themselves' that a second head gradually (or on rare occasions at birth) emerges alongside the first one.
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You can spot them a mile off - oh and and hear the two heads talking / braying to each other in that over-weening self congratulatory Henley way - Very similar to Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitcherhiker's Guide - but without the humour or imagination.
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Give me Marlow folk every time. The river etc is lovely but I do not desire to live there. Sorry.