Council charges mothers £1 to park PUSHCHAIRS outside library

 

 

Last updated at 1:11 AM on 19th September 2008

 

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Angry parents are being charged £1 to park their pushchairs at libraries holding free singing sessions for children.

The parking fee has been introduced for every buggy brought to the popular Baby Boogie sessions.

Hundreds of parents turn out each week for the singing and rhyme classes for under-fives which are held in 11 libraries in Brighton and Hove.

 

Angry: Andrea Pollins, right, and Suzie Christiansen, left, had to fork out £1 for each pushchair they brought to a free children's singing session in the library

 

They had been free until this month but now mums and dads will have to pay and claim it will encourage them to drive rather than walk.

Mother-of-two Andrea Pollins, 31, said: 'I thought the council wanted people off the road and walking but this will encourage them to use their cars.

'I can afford to pay £1 but I'm sure it would put some people off.'

 

Brighton and Hove City Council is expected to make £4,000 from the controversial charge but said the income was used to cover costs of the scheme after it lost funding.

A council spokesman said: 'We have introduced a small cloakroom charge to store pushchairs and buggies. All the money collected goes towards running the sessions.

'The charge is per buggy or pushchair regardless of number of children. We don't want to make it too expensive for the families with a number of children under five.

'The council makes no other charges for buggies or pushchairs in our libraries or any other public building we manage.

 

'The current charges will be reviewed later this year.'

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Quick way to make a pound, anyone?

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Quick way to make a pound, anyone?

Won't be long before someone introduces a "breathing" tax!!:rolleyes:

Well, that's one too. :lol:

Won't be long before someone introduces a "breathing" tax!!:rolleyes:

 

The Breathing Tax comes into force on the 1st October 2008, Lord Brown needs some more money to give to the Scottish you see.

The Breathing Tax comes into force on the 1st October 2008, Lord Brown needs some more money to give to the Scottish you see.

 

So will that be Gordon's "last-gasp" action before he finally falls on his sword??:rolleyes:

You could say that, but he has sold his sword

You could say that, but he has sold his sword

 

Along with the crown jewels??:rolleyes:

He is currently selling the crowd jewels to some rich arabs.

He is currently selling the crowd jewels to some rich arabs.

 

The ones who bought City??:rolleyes:

Maybe

I was looking at this article thinking of when I went to my local library....and I saw some buggies parked outside...... then I noticed this was about Brighton & Hove!

 

If all of the sessions are free, I don't really see why people should moan about paying a small fee for someone looking after their buggies. Maybe 50p or something. It's just sad in this day and age, you can't just leave your pram/buggy anywhere without being stolen.

I was looking at this article thinking of when I went to my local library....and I saw some buggies parked outside...... then I noticed this was about Brighton & Hove!

 

If all of the sessions are free, I don't really see why people should moan about paying a small fee for someone looking after their buggies. Maybe 50p or something. It's just sad in this day and age, you can't just leave your pram/buggy anywhere without being stolen.

 

You could in Germany.;)

I would say £1 is good value for money to make sure that the pushchair is kept in a secure environment

I would say £1 is good value for money to make sure that the pushchair is kept in a secure environment

 

Said like a true council spokesman!!:rolleyes:

So will that be Gordon's "last-gasp" action before he finally falls on his sword??:rolleyes:

 

Did you see the latest opinion polls, Conservative:52%, Labor:24% if that happened a an election it would be worse than falling on a sword it would be total destruction.

(First) Lord (of the treasury) Brown doesn't have to call a general election until the 5th May 2010 :(

 

Unless the Queen gets really pissed off and uses her power to dissolve government early, which is highly unlikely.

Either way he's a dead man walking politically, I for one am very much looking forward to seeing these tax obsessed nannying arrogant champange socialists given the boot, particually the contemptable twat Ed Balls and the deluded Miliband, as well as McBrown himself obviously, I jumped for joy when I saw Livingstone lose the London Mayoral election, for all he people that did vote for him he got kicked out because he was a power crazy idiot with stupid ideas and was rather badly hated by alot of London.

Unless Cameron does something monumetally stupid he's going to win the next election, my only hope is that Labour take such a battering that they become the 3rd party with the Lib Dems as the official oppisition.

So did you vote for Boris?

 

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Where I live, both MPs for the village (just don't ask how a small village ended up with 2 MPs) are Tories, and both got voted in with a heavy majority.

 

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The problem with the labour party at the moment is you have people saying Brown should go, but there is really nobody to replace him as leader

Of course I voted for Boris, the only thing I would vote for in favour of Ken Livingstone would be his public execution, I really really don't like him.

The problem with Labour now is Browns reputation's in ruins and his 'prudence' tag exposed for a lie he appears incompetent and has no focus and no direction anymore.

I love the way they keep the "cost of living" figures down by including items where people only buy once every 2-3 years (sofas, large TVs, computers etc)

To tell the truth I'm never likely to vote for Labour as I would say fiscally, and on quite a few other areas I find myself to be quite strongly a Tory voter.

Either way he's a dead man walking politically.

 

In other words, he's Brown bread........................ :rolleyes:

^Worst. Joke. Ever^