This failure can only be corrected if the councils give up either their powers of enforcement to local police or some other entity disinterested in the financial outcome of such enforcement or give up the financial benefit from penalty notices.

BBC: Parking - Your Thoughts

Wherever you come down on the advisability of America engaging militarily in yet-another Middle Eastern nation, if we decide it is in our national interest to do so, it should be up to our elected representatives, not the United Nations, the Arab League or some other multilateral entity.

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