Is this the real reason why councils issue parking tickets?

Is this really what it's all about?
Tax farming?
Stealth tax?
Hatred of the motorist?
Or is it the exploitation by private enforcement companies and the need for councils and 'the industry' to generate the revenue to keep 'the industry' which also includes the 'independent' adjudicators well fed at the parking trough?

Parking fines are the new instrument of the left against the middle class


Intransigent wardens chasing targets and bonuses are hated by car owners and are a PR disaster for councils

Simon Jenkins
Friday June 16, 2006
The Guardian

The motorists begin to fight back

This was one of the first reports detailing both the local and national fightback and reports on Alex Henney's fight in Camden and Neil Herron in Sunderand. Watch this space ... as the campaigners' strength and knowledge expands then the worst local authorities will come under increasing scrutiny.

The Times
February 5, 2006

Breaking point: the parking fightback

One man’s anger over his exorbitant fines is set to trigger a test case that has sent councils running for their lawyers. Will the Human Rights Act finally tame the parking police, asks Emma Smith
Alex Henney is an angry man. In the past two years he has been the victim of parking fines in Camden, north London, for offences he says “had nothing to do with parking management and everything to do with making money”. More ...