In message , Conor
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AS a sort of related story, I sold the missuses Mondeo to a Pole a
couple of months ago. Said it needed taxing. He said he wasn't going to
bother and had never taxed a car in the UK. Despite living in the
centre of Lincoln, he didn't give a ****. He said the traffic wardens
would fine him £100 for parking in the wrong place but took no notice
of a complete lack of tax disc.

It's very different in the part of London where I live. At least four
untaxed cars have gone off to the crushers from my small road alone in
the last year, preceded by the usual notice and then wheel-clamping.
Wardens check the road every week - and its not for parking
infringements, since there are no parking restrictions.
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Paul Terry

Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Conor
writes

AS a sort of related story, I sold the missuses Mondeo to a Pole a
couple of months ago. Said it needed taxing. He said he wasn't going
to bother and had never taxed a car in the UK. Despite living in the
centre of Lincoln, he didn't give a ****. He said the traffic wardens
would fine him £100 for parking in the wrong place but took no notice
of a complete lack of tax disc.

It's very different in the part of London where I live. At least four
untaxed cars have gone off to the crushers from my small road alone in
the last year, preceded by the usual notice and then wheel-clamping.
Wardens check the road every week - and its not for parking
infringements, since there are no parking restrictions.

Same round my bit of London/Surrey, just before Christmas I drove home
from work late (11pm)& wondered why there were so many cars still parked
near the office blocks. Then I noticed that they were all clamped & all
with notices on the windscreen about out of date tax. A few were still
there 5 days later, after that I think they were lifted, probably to be
no more.

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Tony the Dragon