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		<title>The Laziness of PCSO-CW7142 &#8211; Ahmed Butt</title>
		<link>http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1445</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I was on the prowl for trouble with camera in hand, sadly I found none. What I did find however was a perfectly legitimate way to save the taxpayer thousands of Pounds.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend I was on the prowl for trouble with camera in hand, sadly I found none. What I did find however was a perfectly legitimate way to save the taxpayer thousands of Pounds.</p>
<p>As most Londoners will know Sunday was Skyride, where the streets of central London were closed to traffic but open for cyclists. I somehow found myself at Trafalgar Square the scene of a concentration of cyclists. While wondering around I happened upon PCSO Ahmed Butt, he came to my attention when I heard him shouting at young cyclists to &#8220;Gerroff your bikes fellas&#8221;. I thought this was somewhat out of order considering we are after all in England where, I assumed minding your Ps &#038; Qs was still prevalent in the public service. Apparently not. </p>
<p>After hearing the fuck-nugget barking orders at a few cyclists I thought I&#8217;d look around for any no-cycling signs. I couldn&#8217;t find any. Was he making the rules up? I have no idea, all I know is I watched for about an hour and I can see why this country is in the shit it&#8217;s in. Too many people employed in non-jobs at our expense. </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll notice in the video that there was another person with PCSO Butt. That person is a heritage warden. I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s the heritage warden who is supposed to look after places like Trafalgar Square so why have a PCSO doing the same thing?</p>
<p>Fuck knows.</p>
<p>The video is ultra boring so I&#8217;ve spiced it up with a little Sepultura. Yes the name and PCSO number are genuine. He basically missed a trick, I wasn&#8217;t exactly subtle when I was recording him. I could easily have been a terrorist [/end sarcasm]</p>
<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;ve sent, via the Met&#8217;s website a suggestion that I can help them cut their costs.</p>
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		<title>The Police Are Cunts. Full Stop.</title>
		<link>http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1443</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again I utter those words&#8230; That&#8217;s because every now and again you get a shining example of a policeman being a cunt. Gotty has more here. And here&#8217;s the video.

If you read the comments you&#8217;ll see a lot of people also expressing their pissed offedness about PCSOs. Yesterday I witnessed a plastic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every now and again I utter those words&#8230; That&#8217;s because every now and again you get a shining example of a policeman being a cunt. <a href="http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-police-farce-twattery.html#comments">Gotty has more here</a>. And here&#8217;s the video.</p>
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<p>If you read the comments you&#8217;ll see a lot of people also expressing their pissed offedness about PCSOs. Yesterday I witnessed a plastic plod, overstepping his authority, making up rules, chatting to a buddy and taking pictures of tourists. All the while our taxes being squandered on his chubby ass. I&#8217;ll be posting a video soon.</p>
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		<title>Kate O&#8217;Sullivan &#8230;. I fucking salute you! Top Bird!</title>
		<link>http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1441</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out!
Well done Kate, I&#8217;m hoping your attempt had something to do with this. If not, if you&#8217;re ever in London I&#8217;ll buy you a drink!
A woman with bigger balls than most blokes in this country (including me).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/dublin-protester-tries-to-make-citizens-arrest-on-tony-blair-14933826.html?r=RSS">Check it out</a>!</p>
<p>Well done Kate, I&#8217;m hoping your attempt had something to do with <a href="http://www.arrestblair.org/">this</a>. If not, if you&#8217;re ever in London I&#8217;ll buy you a drink!</p>
<p>A woman with bigger balls than most blokes in this country (including me).</p>
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		<title>Chuckle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I R.S.V.P.&#8217;ed to an invite by Ed Millipede&#8230;. I hope they&#8217;ll have coffee&#8230;
Thanks for signing up to join us at Haverstock School in Camden for a keynote speech and Q &#038; A event on Sunday, 5th September.
The event will begin at 7pm.
We need to change our Labour Party so we can win again &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I R.S.V.P.&#8217;ed to an invite by Ed Millipede&#8230;. I hope they&#8217;ll have coffee&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Thanks for signing up to join us at Haverstock School in Camden for a keynote speech and Q &#038; A event on Sunday, 5th September.</p>
<p>The event will begin at 7pm.</p>
<p>We need to change our Labour Party so we can win again &#8212; and I look forward to our conversation about how I intend to make that change if elected leader.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Ed Miliband</p></blockquote>
<p>I wonder how well Ed, Eddy, Edd will respond to heckling? If I can get there that is&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Tony Blair is a War Criminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is he not? Is there anyone out there that disagrees with me at all? I&#8217;m sure there are a few, however I think the general consensus is that he is, and to top it all off he  hasn&#8217;t shown the slightest bit of remorse at all for his actions. A fine leader indeed!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is he not? Is there anyone out there that disagrees with me at all? I&#8217;m sure there are a few, however I think the general consensus is that he is, and to top it all off he  hasn&#8217;t shown the slightest bit of remorse at all for his actions. A fine leader indeed!</p>
<p>On Wednesday I&#8217;ll be at Waterstones, I may or may not indulge in egg throwing and such like it all depends on how close one can get to the arsehole really.</p>
<p>There are of course other people <a href="http://www.arrestblair.org/">who think like me</a>. He&#8217;s a piece of shit and needs taking down a peg or two, and if there was any sort of justice in the world he&#8217;d be shot on Parliament Square live on BBC Pravda. </p>
<p>But we all know there&#8217;s no justice in the world so there are various campaigns arround to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Put-one-of-Tony-Blairs-books-in-the-crime-section-of-your-bookshop/">enable people to take their own sweet revenge</a>. Staff at bookstores are going to get real sick of the joke real quick. Serves them fucking right really. If they want to work for a company that&#8217;s going to sell Tones Tome and thereby add to his coffers then they&#8217;ll have to put up with it.</p>
<p>Being a tad hungover and <del datetime="2010-09-04T12:08:09+00:00">a smidge</del> fucking bored I&#8217;m going to put my own spin on the moving a book gag and then film the reactions to it. You see I&#8217;ve printed off a few pages (which costs next to nothing in the grand scheme of things) and instead of the hard task of firstly finding the crime section in my local bookstore (It&#8217;s a fucking maze) and not being able to source a biohazard suit (I wouldn&#8217;t touch that book without protection, Socialism and the ills that go with it are contagious) I&#8217;m just going to plop my printed pages on the shelves that hold His Fucking Smugness&#8217; book.</p>
<p>Oh I almost, almost forgot to say what&#8217;s printed on these pages:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><br />
TONY BLAIR<br />
IS A<br />
WAR CRIMINAL</strong><br />
www.youve-been-cromwelled.org
</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, yes I had to get a bit of linkage in there, I want to start driving traffic to the site in novel ways. Not because I&#8217;m after the stats, I couldn&#8217;t give a fuck really, I just want people to come, see and then get a bit of inspiration to do their own little bit to fight &#8220;<strong>The Beast</strong>&#8220;.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t being bored out of your skull great? Hear me out, when I&#8217;m bored I do a lot of thinking, in my case my thoughts nearly always centre around how I&#8217;d like to get back at the fucking bastards. I&#8217;ve got lots of ideas bouncing around in my neanderthal skull, however I am but only one person, some of these ideas I&#8217;m going to need help with. More about those ideas later. There is one idea in particular I&#8217;d like to put on paper as it&#8217;s in similar vein to what I&#8217;m goinng to do above. I&#8217;m planning on going out and about in London at all the various tourist traps, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus etc and pass a sign to people that says exactly what it does avbove and then film/take pictures of these people. My target number for people holding said sign is 1000. Yes very ambitious, but I&#8217;m in no rush and can do it over a few weekends. </p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re interested in being one of these people just keep coming back to YBC and I&#8217;ll be posting the dates/times/places where I&#8217;ll be with this sign.</p>
<p>Hope to see you there.</p>
<p>Booyaka Motherfuckers!</p>
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		<title>Mischief with the Foreign Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading Holby&#8217;s post about the Foreign Office I thought I&#8217;d follow them on Twitter. They followed me back. So I thought I&#8217;d have some fun. 

I wonder if they&#8217;ll reply or unfollow me? Or even worse, do a Labour and block me?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After reading <a href="http://www.oldholborn.net/2010/09/sits-vac-special-advisor-to-foreign.html">Holby&#8217;s</a> post about the Foreign Office I thought I&#8217;d follow them on Twitter. They followed me back. So I thought I&#8217;d have some fun. </p>
<p><a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/saturdayhumour.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/saturdayhumour-300x85.jpg" alt="" title="saturdayhumour" width="300" height="85" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1432" /></a></p>
<p>I wonder if they&#8217;ll reply or unfollow me? Or even worse, do a Labour and block me?</p>
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		<title>Hoot Against Hypocrisy &#8211; The Serious Bit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of the 3 posts I promised I was going to do today about the Hoot Against Hypocrisy shenanigans I made mention of the occupants of the camera car digging around for something. When I first arrived at the car there was something missing from the front windscreen and when they realised what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1411">In the first of the 3 posts</a> I promised I was going to do today about the Hoot Against Hypocrisy shenanigans I made mention of the occupants of the camera car digging around for something. When I first arrived at the car there was something missing from the front windscreen and when they realised what I was up to they found what was missing and slid it into the holder on the inside of the screen. Once it was in place the male occupant of the car knocked on the window to get my attention and pointed to the inside of the window pointing out something.</p>
<p><a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1418">If you watch the video</a> you will see what I&#8217;m talking about. Look in the lower right hand side (as you&#8217;re looking at the car). You can see  two little &#8220;sticker type&#8221; doodabs, but because I&#8217;m so fucking organised I took a picture so you needn&#8217;t look out for them:<br />
<a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/S1020001.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/S1020001-300x168.jpg" alt="" title="S1020001" width="300" height="168" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1421" /></a></p>
<p>Before I go into rant mode, notice the expiry date on the permit. 10/09/2010, anyone care to guess where I&#8217;m going to be on the 11th September at all?</p>
<p>Ok rant mode:</p>
<p>Emergency? Emergency my fucking arse! </p>
<p>When one thinks of emergencies you think of things like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ambulance.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ambulance-300x195.jpg" alt="" title="ambulance" width="300" height="195" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1422" /></a></p>
<p>This:<br />
<a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Police.car_.1.arp_.750pix.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Police.car_.1.arp_.750pix-300x214.jpg" alt="" title="Police.car.1.arp.750pix" width="300" height="214" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1423" /></a></p>
<p>This:<br />
<a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/school_firetour_engfront.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/school_firetour_engfront-271x300.jpg" alt="" title="school_firetour_engfront" width="271" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1424" /></a></p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re a chick this:<br />
<a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Tampax.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Tampax-271x300.jpg" alt="" title="Tampax" width="271" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1425" /></a></p>
<p>But you most certainly do not think of this:<br />
<a href="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cctv_smart_car4_web.jpg"><img src="http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cctv_smart_car4_web.jpg" alt="" title="cctv_smart_car4_web" width="240" height="176" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1426" /></a></p>
<p>You see what they&#8217;ve done there don&#8217;t you? They&#8217;ve assigned the CCTV car the status of an emergency vehicle which then allows it to park wherever and however it wants with absolutely no come back whatsoever. That says to me that there has to be some sort of qualifying factors to get a vehicle assigned emergency status, and by fuckery I&#8217;m going to find out what those qualifiers are, and once I do I&#8217;m going to make them publicly available so that the man on the street can &#8220;adapt their car&#8221; to qualify for an emergency parking permit.</p>
<p>That&#8217;ll show the fuckers. You may also have noticed from one of the earlier posts today that Lambeth Council have quite suddenly started visiting this site, maybe the person who&#8217;s been visiting would be nice enough to send me the qualifying criteria for an emergency vehicle anonymously. Failing that I do have one or three contacts in the council and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be more than willing to help me out.</p>
<p>The point of today&#8217;s exercise was to prove if you stand against these guys there&#8217;s absolutely nothing they can do about it whatsoever as long as you&#8217;re reasonable about it, at the same time you&#8217;re also demonstrating to other people that it is possible to protest against these mother-fuckers without any comeback at all.</p>
<p>London Borough of Lambeth&#8230; You&#8217;ve Been Cromwelled!</p>
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		<title>Hoot Against Hypocrisy &#8211; The Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second attempt at video making. 
I&#8217;ve just noticed something which I missed in all the larking about. At about 1:07 into the clip watch how the occupants try and hide their faces with the sun visros. Doesn&#8217;t feel so good to have the camera on you contantly does it fucktards&#8230;. ?

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My second attempt at video making. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve just noticed something which I missed in all the larking about. At about 1:07 into the clip watch how the occupants try and hide their faces with the sun visros. Doesn&#8217;t feel so good to have the camera on you contantly does it fucktards&#8230;. ?</p>
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		<title>Hoot Against Hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sir Olly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well what can I say, it was a blast &#038; I didn&#8217;t get arrested, accosted or interfered with in any way shape or form, always a good thing I reckon.
As has been habit this week I cut my bus journey short this morning in order to confront the camera car with my awesomely designed sign, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well what can I say, it was a blast &#038; I didn&#8217;t get arrested, accosted or interfered with in any way shape or form, always a good thing I reckon.</p>
<p>As has been habit this week I cut my bus journey short this morning in order to confront the camera car with my awesomely designed sign, my YBC T-Shirt, and my camera. No, no pig mask today. There&#8217;s lots to talk about and show you so I&#8217;m going to be breaking the whole episode up into three posts. This post is going to concentrate on the experience itself, one will be a serious question that&#8217;s arisen from the experience and the third will be the actual video.</p>
<p>I got to my position way too early this morning, but it gave me a chance to settle my nerves (no matter how many times you do these type of things there&#8217;s always a few nerves). I took this time to don my YBC shirt, get the sign ready and to make sure the camcorder was operational and on the correct settings etc. I didn&#8217;t have to wait long for the camera car at all, and as expected I didn&#8217;t have to wait long until it parked on the now famous double yellow lines.</p>
<p>Sign in one hand, camera in the other I walked up to the window of the car and greeted the occupants and then walked round to the front of the car, set the camera to record and held up the sign.</p>
<p>The male occupant of the camera car said something to his colleague and they did a bit of digging around, I wasn&#8217;t quite sure why, but it soon became evident. Which will be the basis of my second post.</p>
<p>Bear in mind this is rush hour in London so traffic isn&#8217;t exactly fast moving (Bonus for me) so people actually had the time to read and then react to the sign. At first a few people laughed in the comfort of their car, however they all gave the thumbs up signal,which I&#8217;m hoping was their approval of my activities. It didn&#8217;t take long before people started hooting as requested and I&#8217;m sure the local residents were wondering what the fuckety-fuck was going on outside.</p>
<p>Lots of drivers rolled down their windows and congratulated me as did a lot of pedestrians etc. The crowning moment I think for me (only because it provided a good old giggle) was when a Lambeth Council rubbish truck drove past  and actually hooted. Considering I was protesting against some of their fellow employees it was quite surprising but the source of the stupid grin on my face.</p>
<p>After about 35 minutes I packed up and before leaving asked the occupants of the car whether it would be ok to lean the sign up against the car to take pictures etc. They said it was fine, so I took my pictures, wished them a good weekend and got the hell out of dodge.</p>
<p>So all in all pretty successful, hopefully it will have stirred a few people into being vocal about the hypocrisy of Lambeth Council, and it could possibly drive a bit of traffic to the site.</p>
<p>Apologies for the lack of pictures, they&#8217;ll be up later tonight when I get a chance to grab them off the camera.</p>
<p>Booyaka Mother-fuckers!</p>
<p>UPDATED: <a href="http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/8310819.Lambeth_hands_out_most_CCTV_parking_fines_in_the_UK/">To include this link</a></p>
<p>UPDATED: To include the screenshot below: Welcome London Borough of Lambeth! I hope you&#8217;re on your lunch break while browsing the site!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, yes I know an oxymoron and all that bollocks, but if you&#8217;ve read the post before this, you&#8217;ll know that the other day after almost two years of just driving by a certain camera car that was breaking the law I decided enough was enough. I confronted the occupants of the car and made a little film. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BPNl_a7ms">Oscar winning stuff</a>. I shit you not. Anyhow, the day after I filmed the camera car I thought I&#8217;d go back to see if they&#8217;d taken any notice of my complaint. Sadly not. However I did attempt to film the car again, I got about 30 seconds worth and to be honest I don&#8217;t have the motivation to edit it and stick it up just yet as the effort and time involved far outweighs the length of the clip..</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone&#8217;s heard the saying &#8220;Third strike and you&#8217;re out&#8221;, well judging by the non-response of the camera car I&#8217;m guessing I&#8217;ll be able to catch them a 3rd time. It should be pretty easy as parking on double yellows is quite a habit for these cretins. So to celebrate and to make the 3rd time a little more special I&#8217;ve done a little more preparation. See picture below. Apologies for the poor quality of the picture but I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll get the gist of what I&#8217;m going to be doing. </p>
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<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree I&#8217;m no arts and crafts specialist, in fact I failed that particular part of my school career rather badly. But at least I&#8217;ve got the job done and I&#8217;ll be able to get the message across.</p>
<p>Now I know some people will be asking what good will I be doing by standing in the middle of the road with a sign. Well to be 100% honest probably not a lot, however at least I&#8217;ll make my point. That said, on the two previous occasions I&#8217;ve filmed the camera car I&#8217;ve had a rather positive response from people in their cars and passers by, so I&#8217;m hoping a cacophony of car hooters will be piercing the still morning air in the Streatham area soon.</p>
<p>Are the council aware of what I&#8217;m going to be doing? Nah, not really, but who gives a fuck huh? They do know however that I&#8217;m on the warpath:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Mr Cromwell,</p>
<p>Thank you for your e-mail of 31 August 2010. I am sorry to hear of your dissatisfaction with our services. We have logged your correspondence as a complaint under the reference 134507. A copy of our complaints procedure has been attached for your reference.</p>
<p>A response will be provided by 21 September 2010</p>
<p>Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further enquiries.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely</p>
<p> Robert Elliott</p>
<p>Assistant Team Administrator</p>
<p>Business Performance Section &#8211; Parking Services<br />
Lambeth Housing, Regeneration and Environment<br />
+: PO Box 51929, London, SW9 9YR<br />
(: 020 7926 6249                      Fax: 020 7926 0506<br />
:: relliott2@lambeth.gov.uk<br />
Website: www.lambeth.gov.uk</p>
<p>‘Making a difference’</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, and if that&#8217;s not enough, the nosey mother-fuckers have been visiting the site, which is rather flattering really wouldn&#8217;t you say? That and they&#8217;ve got my FOI request too. Keep an eye out for a new video soon.</p>
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