Bollocks! Mayor Of London Is Fining President Obama For Not Paying A Congestion Charge

by Jon Bershad | 3:55 pm, July 19th, 2011

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Well, it’s finally happened. After months of forewarnings, the a massive British scandal has crossed the ocean and reached our shores, embroiling some of the most powerful people in America. What? Oh, no, not that thing. Is that story still going? Whatever. No, I’m talking about the congestion fee that London Mayor Boris Johnson has fined the President with. It may not seem like a bigger story but just wait till Hugh Grant gets involved!

Anyway, the story started back in May when President Obama and his high-security motorcade visited the United Kingdom. The city of London filed a £10 congestion fee against the motorcade which America never paid because no one can boss us around ever! And because we’re broke.

Now, however, Johnson is breaking out the big guns; a £120 lateness fee!

From the London Evening Standard:

“Mr Johnson raised the issue with Mr Obama at a banquet at Buckingham Palace in a ‘very friendly conversation’ in May.

He has argued that The Beast and the rest of the convoy should have paid the charge as London’s roads were not closed – unlike during the Pope’s visit last autumn, when the Popemobile was exempt.

The American Embassy defended the refusal by US diplomats to pay the C-charge insisting it was ‘wholly in accordance’ with the 1960 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which a spokesman said ‘prohibits the imposition of this sort of tax on diplomatic missions’.”

This may seem a bit petty however, as the Evening Standard points out, the £120 are just the tip of a £5 million iceberg that American diplomats have amassed and not paid since the fee was first established in 2003. So, yeah, what’s the bigger British news story now, huh?

What? Still the other one. Okay, fine.

(h/t Drudge)

barack obama, Boris Johnson, London, United Kingdom

Anonymous

IMPEACH!
Dik Gozinya

Is that the congestion that spews out of O-Mao-Bama’s mouth when he reads his teleprompter?
Anonymous

What the #$@%?….The Pope is exempt but not the Messiah? How can that be?

Obama won’t pay for it…he’ll make the taxpayers pay for it…London should ban him from ever coming back or he’ll be arrested!!
Anonymous

Just a matter of time before the Libs declare that London is racist!!!
Anonymous

Just a matter of time before the Libs declare that London is racist!!!
Anonymous

Is there an extradition treaty in place for this?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

Please, please can we extradite him??
http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

Remember when “The Beast” got stuck?

It was just another one of those bodies in the Obama economy road to recovery. I wonder how many more millions of bumps in the road will Obama run over to fundamentally transform the Republic into the Communist Utopia?
http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

You sir are on it today.
http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

Why not just throw him in a local London jail until we can sort this mess out, and by mess I mean him destroying our economy.
http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

Why not just throw him in a local London jail until we can sort this mess out, and by mess I mean him destroying our economy.
Drspam

your stupid
http://twitter.com/harrisonprice Capitol Commentary

That’s “You’re stupid” actually.
caconservative

Haven’t the Brit’s noticed, Obimbo considers himself royalty and above the fray. He’s a legend in his own mind.
Anonymous

Well now the Brits can have a taste of what it is like to deal with Obama on a budget crisis. Clearly this won’t be a paid until it has turned into a “crisis” of international proportions.
Anonymous

I wonder why the number of nut cases has skyrocketed since this became DISQUS. Although many of the same people are commenting, the format is less active and intellectual. Oops, the Tea Party must be on the prowl.
JMcCarthy

Since Mullah obama’s father was a Kenyan Citizen, which made him a British Citizen, that makes obama a British subject. obama is NOT an AMERICAN. So Britan, EXTRADITE OBAMA, PLEASE!
JMcCarthy

Since Mullah obama’s father was a Kenyan Citizen, which made him a British Citizen, that makes obama a British subject. obama is NOT an AMERICAN. So Britan, EXTRADITE OBAMA, PLEASE!