Rip-off Britain: still on the go

I live near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and on Saturday was left my Renault Megane Monaco GP – more on that another day – in a shoppers’ car park. I picked ‘over four hours’ and it cost me £2. On Sunday I did the exact thing in Lincoln, another historic city with another impressive cathedral and more ruined walls. So why did it cost me £6 in Lincoln? Outside of London, which is a different case, I’ve never paid that much for parking. The change I’d specially acquired before setting off, to feed the machine, wasn’t enough. I had to pay by credit card. I can’t remember the last time that happened. How can Lincoln Council justify £6 when Bury charges £2 for same service? I was genuinely gobsmacked.