Kick a man when he's down.

One of the topics I keep returning to is that of hospital parking charges.  With the coming of the new financial year, many hospitals are increasing their charges - substantially in some cases.  This has led to renewed calls for parking at hospitals in England to be free, as it already is in the rest of the UK.  The Government say this is not possible as it would "cost" the NHS some £100m a year.  This seems to me to be rather like saying that it would be wrong to require a thief to stop stealing on the grounds that he needs the money!