"Chris Read" wrote in message
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And talking about generating revenue, are embassies/high commissions
paying the CC and parking fines now, or are they still outrageously
flouting the law? If the latter, is there any good reason why the relevant
vehicles are not clamped and towed away?

For the CC: No and they are never going to as it is a tax and they are not
obliged to pay it. The fact that TfL claim that it isn't a tax doesn't
change the fact that it is.

Fines: AIUI most embassies do pay fines. Fines are (pseudo)criminal
sanctions and whilst diplomats can't be subjected to these they can be
excluded from the country. Most embassies recognise that not paying trivial
parking fines will generate more trouble than it is worth

tim