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Reader Bruce points us to yet another example of what an utterly cr*ppy country once Great Britain has become …

Traffic wardens in Halifax have been criticised for handing out tickets to people during a Remembrance Day service in the town. Drivers said cars parked in Dispensary Walk were being issued with tickets during a two-minute silence to remember war dead at 1100 GMT on Sunday.

Malcolm Walker told BBC Radio Leeds he challenged a warden about the fines.
Calderdale Council said illegally parked cars caused problems for the street's residents throughout the year.

But Mr Walker said he felt furious with the council over the fines. He said: "I said, do you not realise why these cars are actually parked here? They've come to remember the fallen.
"I said, could you not just go round the corner for five minutes and cut them some slack?

And the woman just actually said, 'A, I'm doing my job, and B, I didn't even know there was a parade on.”

Anyone & I mean anyone who uses the excuse I’m just doing my job should be reminded that that particular defence was used by a number of former members of the SS at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials … & they had their necks stretched for their trouble. Now I am not for one moment suggesting that the streets of Halifax should be adorned by the still twitching corpses of certain recently lynched Traffic Wardens … but come to think of it, I can’t really see any particular reason why on earth not