Proposed parking charges in Wiltshire are barking mad

My local authority - Wiltshire Council - is holding a consultation about car parking charges across the county which has got me extremely hot under the collar!

My E=MC2 chums are also pretty angry too because they’ll have to start paying £4.50 a day, £22.50 a week; £90 a month and almost £1,100 a year! Money they could have spent on 4,050 cans of my favourite tripe flavour Pedigree Chum and a couple of juicy lamb bones from Lee Downer the butcher up the street.

Now everyone will leave their cars on the street, block buses, Massey Fergusons and combine harvesters and create huge traffic jams! And who's going to pay £4.50 a day when they can park for nothing on public roads or pay £3 at the Tisbury railway station?

If these ludicrous parking charges are enforced in Tisbury people won’t shop in the village anymore, our high street will die and local employers will be forced to move elsewhere. If the council wants to bring Wiltshire villages to their knees, this is the way to do it.

If you ask me, they’re all a bunch of city slickers who think that chickens come frozen.

If you don’t like the new parking charges and want to comment, go to: http://consult.wiltshire.gov.uk/portal/ltp/ltp_parking_strategy