Lord Patel brands Blackburn's parking regime as "back-door taxation."

Remember Blackburn's dubious parking ticket and laughable road markings? Well, here they are again

The trouble is that they have picked on one of their civic leaders and he ain't happy.The penny is starting to drop that unregulated, uncontrolled decriminalised parking enforcement is nothing more than a stealth tax on the motorist:

Lord blasts parking fines
By Charlotte Bradshaw, Lancashire Telegraph

ANGER: Lord Patel wants a change to the parking system

A COMMUNITY leader has hit out at "over zealous" parking wardens after he received three tickets in a month. Lord Adam Patel, a founder member of Blackburn with Darwen Racial Equality Council, who was caught out twice in two days, has vowed to campaign for a change in the system, which he labelled "back-door taxation.

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