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Mail investigation of "red van invasion"

Disgusting vans!
Ugly vans!
Anti-social vans!
Unsightly vans!
Won't someone do something?!
 
It must be the silly season - journalists get the opportunity to sound off about their pet subjects unencumbered by proper news
 
The biggest 'scandal' about those vans is that once you add up the minimum two hour charge and the admin fee (and according to the article, another fiver for a 'delivery fee'), they actually are anything but cheap.

Having said that, and living on a ground floor, I'd be mighty pissed off if any van or high sided vehicle was parked outside my window and left there for months. Specially if it's just been dumped there for advertising reasons.
 
And the problem with the vans is what exactly....would you rather all these lads sign on the dole and scrounge like so many others. Is it not hard enough to make a living in this hell Nu Lab have created without complaining about some people who are actually earning a living.. How about complaining about the huge salaries the lazy lying Mp's award themselves

:hmm:
 
The Mail on Sunday said:
"It's big, It's black and white, It's ugly – and you could end up with one on your doorstep for years.

Increasing numbers of suburban neighbourhoods are coming under siege from a right-wing tory newspaper business that advertises itself in local newsagents and on the side of rusting, dilapidated news stands dumped on street corners with little thought for nearby residents.

And local councils admit that there is nothing they can do about the problem of the Mail on Sunday."
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;)
 
Hi-ASL said:
And the problem with the vans is what exactly....would you rather all these lads sign on the dole and scrounge like so many others. Is it not hard enough to make a living in this hell Nu Lab have created without complaining about some people who are actually earning a living.. How about complaining about the huge salaries the lazy lying Mp's award themselves

:hmm:
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Thanks for your call Ian of Glasgow...
 
"All councils have to do is get a bye-law passed to stop vans being parked in residential areas between the hours of six o'clock at night & eight o'clock in the morning. A residential area being defined as a highway which contains at least one house."

Poor the socially excluded RedVans, its the end of days.
 
We had one at the end of our road for ages that hardly (if ever) moved but it is gone now.

Never really bothered me but was not the best 'sign writing' I have ever seen.
 
T & P said:
Having said that, and living on a ground floor, I'd be mighty pissed off if any van or high sided vehicle was parked outside my window and left there for months. Specially if it's just been dumped there for advertising reasons.
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Yes, I agree.

But to somehow suggest this is A Threat To Civilisation As We Know It is a little over the top.

Not that the Mail ever sensationalises anything of course :D
 
I hate these vans, with their nasty vanny ways, the lazy buggers just sit there never doing any work whatsoever, scrounging off the honest taxpayer, undercutting our good old fashioned british vans. I bet they spread diseases :mad:
 
They are outbreeding, attacking, and in some cases pack-hunting and eating our beloved British white vans.

At the current rate of proliferation, in ten years there will be no white vans left and 85% of vehicles on British roads will be red vans. :(
 
i like headline - "how the suburbs are coming under seige.." for suburbs, read a tiny handful of locations in south east london :D :rolleyes:
 
dodgepot said:
i like headline - "how the suburbs are coming under seige.." for suburbs, read a tiny handful of locations in south east london :D :rolleyes:
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And for 'seige' read 'something that is nothing at all like a seige'

and it's only six vans! :D

It looks like Jack's advertising has now hit a loads more people than he would've expected though :)
 
I'm tempted to email him and ask when he's going to do a story about the nice old bike chained outside the town hall. It's been there for years. Is it still there?
 
ovaltina said:
I'm tempted to email him and ask when he's going to do a story about the nice old bike chained outside the town hall. It's been there for years. Is it still there?
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i love that bike!!! it lost its saddle earlier this year but was still there a few weeks ago... its sadly starting to go a bit rusty now.
 
Somebody left a note on it a year ago saying they wanted to buy iy, but obviously the owner is long gone.

I've submitted a readers' comment for the website - wonder if it will get past the mods... :)
 
fjydj said:
i love that bike!!! it lost its saddle earlier this year but was still there a few weeks ago... its sadly starting to go a bit rusty now.
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Yup, its still there. I occasionally think of turning up in a high vis jacket and some bolt croppers, but I can't bring myself to do it in case its owner eventually returns. There was a note on it for about a month saying "is this yours, please contact me". Shortly afterwards the brooks saddle went...
 
Since reading this thread I've noticed the one parked in the old Texaco garage in front of the barrier block.................................
 
To be a bit boring - the subtext is these are all sold-off old Post Office vans, no? That's a bit of a sad reflection on state of the Post Office.
 
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