My battles with Newlands took an interesting turn today.
In 2015 I was on a three-week social media course at Anglian Ruskin University. The university car park was closed second week due to refurbishment and so I was forced to park in a Cambridge City Council car park. Parking was £12 a day and on benefits of just £73.10 per week (JSA) I could not afford to pay. I was happy to pay the Council in instalments but that is not an option. The other alternative was to abandon the course paid for by the taxpayer and organised by training organisation Ixion.
The Cambridge City Council have made over a half a million pounds in fines from this car park I later learned.
Common Land owned by the general public - once in collective ownership was stolen by the upper classes using violent force, the land never to be returned, and it continues to be a lucrative source of income for those who stole it.
According to Wikipedia: The Inclosure Acts (or "Enclosure Acts" in modern spelling was a series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common. Between 1604 and 1914, over 5,200 individual Enclosure Acts were put into place, enclosing 6.8 million acres (2,800,000 ha; 28,000 km2).
To cut the story short, although I had offered to pay and made a formal offer months before in writing; Newlands the notorious ‘bully boy’ bailiffs became involved and continued to harass myself despite me informing them my JSA would 'just about keep a budgerigar in seed' and certainly not provide the £750 in collection fees that I had been threatened with at one point.
I had daily phone calls from Newlands for several months sometimes three telephone times a day. On some occasions these could be very threatening in tone.
I was surprised today that on visiting a company in Ilford for work opportunity reasons to find my car clamped on a public road with a notice stuck on the windscreen. After about 45 minutes a young chap (Glen) in what looked like a stab vest turned up and removed my clamp.
I had not paid anything. I have previously written to Cambridge City Council and threatened them with action for harassment - the legislation designed to protect people from stalking.
Ironically had the Council accepted my offer, my parking ticket would have long since been paid off.
The public need to be protected from Councils like Cambridge and I suggested to training company Ixion that in future cities that are Benefit Claimant unfriendly should be boycotted in favour of towns and cities with a better attitude to the unemployed.
Cambridge is the City for the sons and daughters of the elite who have the money to pay for £12 a day parking. It’s not the place for those on low incomes.
Ironically Anglia Ruskin University was funded by the controversial Tory Lord Michael Ashcroft.
ATTATCHED below: You can see what was attatched to my windscreen below.
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