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Trust the NHS to take the worst elements of the private sector

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

After driving around the hospital grounds in concentric circles until I was surely down a wormhole, I found the scanning unit. It was shoehorned down a narrow alley and had four parking spaces outside its door, all of them empty, but the sign above them was clear:

‘Private parking, wheel-clamping in operation.’

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