No To the Bike Parking Tax

There are only two ways to legitimately quash a Local Government scheme such as this. By Act of Parliament, or via the High Court. Cllr Chalkley’s decision to make the scheme permanent has opened a window for us to launch a full legal challenge via Judicial Review, for which we have to raise a minimum of £50,000 due to the need for a highly competent Public Law specialist legal team.

The alternative of doing nothing, as many of you already are aware, is that a host of other less-financially well-off as Westminster, will start to sign up to a version of the scheme. Our supporters the Tax Payers Alliance have calculated that, if they roll this bike tax out nationally, the motorcycle community will be laying out a staggering £93,000,000 per annum…

…However, having submitted a Letter Before Action, and finally received a response, we are very confident that we will not only smash this whole scheme, but could have serious implication for the whole pay-by-phone contract currently awarded to Verrus UK Ltd, a Canadian-owned company.

But for us to achieve this, we must now turn to you, the motorcycling community. Quite simply, if we don’t hit them in this window, then we will have little “legal” opportunity thereafter. So my message to you is simple…….

either we all club together to raise the £50,000 now (which would be the equivalent of one tank of fuel or £10 from 5,000 of you), or we will all be continually chipping in to a £93,000,000 annual bill.

But wait, as this fund is purely for a legal challenge, when we win, we will be entitled to costs. So, even if you find £10 a hard amount to donate, there’s the real possibility that you could be getting it back. Again, quite simply, the more we raise now = the better quality of legal expertise we can instruct = the better chance of winning = the greatest chance of getting our money back!!

But what if we lose? I hear you ask. Well, you will lose your £10. However, as it is me putting my name to this in person, I am risking bankruptcy due to what will be a highly punitive costs order. I am willing to take that chance on behalf of you my fellow riders, if only to show you how confident I am that we will prevail. All I ask in return is this…….

My fellow riders, the choice is yours. £50,000 now & once only OR £93,000,000 each and every year thereafter.

Details of how to donate your £10 (or whatever you feel or tank of fuel) are as follows. Please ensure that you give us your details to return it when we win.

REMEMBER, WE ONLY ASK FOR £10 FROM EVERYONE, INCENTIVISED BY METROPOLIS WHO WILL ADD A FURTHER £1.50 TO YOUR DONATION!

• Details and donate to the fighting fund here