Classic dogwhistle:
Fury as traffic wardens slap £130 parking tickets on ambulances bringing cancer patients to one of London's biggest hospitals
Most of the commentators haven't read past the headline and assume this is eeevil traffic wardens preventing emergency ambulances from doing their jobs, despite the fact that you only have to read to paragraph 2 to read:
Private ambulances and cars are being given the penalties for leaving their vehicles near University College Hospital's Macmillan Cancer Centre in Bloomsbury while they change shifts or take in non-emergency patients.
Paragraph 19:
A Camden Council spokesman said: 'We have not issued Penalty Charge Notices to any ambulances on duty providing an emergency service.
'We have asked UCLH and their contractor, who provide non-emergency transport for the hospital, to discuss how they will ensure they maintain access and park non-emergency vehicles in permitted areas.'
Translates as: G4S didn't want to factor in the costs of parking in their contract arrangements, God forbid that anything should eat into their profits, so their vehicles should be allowed to minimise the time involved in delivering patients to the doors by obstructing everyone else on the roads, including emergency ambulances.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... fines.html