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A song set to the tune of A Message To You, Rudy by The Specials is dedicated to Rudy Bright, head of Camden council's parking services, and urges him to "stop your messing around".

The three-minute video, posted on www.parkingappeals.co.uk, shows a decoy truck picking up a string of tickets at 20 "illegal" parking spots.

The campaigners claim none is legally binding because of the "shocking" state of Camden's parking signposts and yellow lines.

"We drove around Camden and couldn't find a single parking bay that was legally binding," said the website's founder Simon Aldridge. "In every single case they have used markings or signs that infringe very strict rules setting out how these things should be done. It is just careless. They are either the wrong size or marked out incorrectly."

The film uses a picture of Camden's parking boss and the words Meet Rudy Bright while informing viewers: "560,000 penalty charge notices issued in 2006/07, generating £24.5 million for Camden." It then asks viewers "want to know the secrets?" before exposing what it claims are the council's shortcomings.

A spokesman for the council said: "Camden has one of the fairest parking systems in London. Council workers don't set the policy but carry out the work and this is an unwarranted attack on a hardworking individual."