Last year the council upped the parking rates for staff as part of its encouraging-green-living-and-nothing-to-do-with-the-budget-deficit programme. It has been a huge success: the staff car park's been half-empty; local pubs and bingo halls have been complaining about the effects of all-day parking outside their premises; and the council's income deficit on car parking charges has gone up from £110,000 to £243,000.
Next week: how to stimulate the economy of an area of special deprivation during a recession by cutting the salaries and allowances of the largest group of people who live and work there.
3 comments:
Uh-oh! Now what? :-)
Maroons...
Pearl
There were parking rates for the hospital car park when I visited my sick aunt in Oxford last time I was in UK. Rates for occupying graves and crematorium urns will be next.
This is the funniest thing Topiary has read in a long time.
Except maybe that story today about the US bank buying a new million-dollar corporate jet with the government bailout funds, and saying it was a good investment because it replaced the old corporate jets.
Moo!
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