Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Astonishing Idiocy

I have say not often am I lost for words.
Recently my aged parents needed to renew their "blue badge" disabled parking permit. These days this no longer just requires a doctors note because the coalition government no longer trusts doctors to determine whether or not we are disabled - this has become the province of an unqualified bureaucratic nightmare known as the local authority. Disabled drivers now have turn up in person to see if they are still eligible (maybe they got all better) and they could be parking in bays they are not entitled to. This of course should carry a mandatory 6 years incarceration. So they pack up the necessary travel accoutrement, which can only be required by new born infants and the elderly, and off to Saffron Walden they went. They sat waiting their turn only to be "interviewed" by a council ingrate who then filled in an identical form that had been sent by post. This was the total extent of the "assessment" and the beloved parents were then shown the door. The final comment was that "it would take two weeks for a decision to be made on their case but I the meantime would they like some help getting the wheelchair back into the car"!!!!!!!
It makes you wonder when the monkeys took over the running of the zoo,

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