was that sufficiently daily mail headline for you?
on the way home i read in the horrendous freebie evening paper from the same stable as the substandard,London Lite, that - OMFG!!! the poor, blighted people of richmond (surrey, not yorkshire. or virginia for that matter) will have to pay horrendously high, unfair car tax for parking their family vehicle outside their home.
now, let's get this straight. first this is richmond. stinking rich people live here. or there. we no longer officially live in the borough of richmond, we just wish we still did. and the 'newspaper' gave an example of a two-car family with two 4x4s. this is all made to sound like the lib dem council had lost the plot and were creating untold trouble for these reasonable people who need a 4x4 to take young jemima and thomas to school. yes, of course they need a massive, opaque-windowed lexus to get through the 30 mph road, and you need a land rover discovery to get up richmond hill to the private school in ham. rubbish. if a family is selfish enough to have two 4x4s then they deserve to be taxed to high heaven. and they must be completely thick, too, to not have a smart. which is the only car you can park round richmond anyway. makes me seethe.
for a slightly different, and altogether more reasoned view than my angry rant, read this, from one of booyaa's running blog contacts.
