THIS was the scene in the disabled parking bays below Clifford's Tower and opposite the Hilton Hotel at 11am yesterday.

None of the cars parked in the bays had a Blue Badge in the windscreen, says reader Greg Hoyland.

"The cars - all top of the range Rolls Royces, Range Rovers, Porsches - were using up all the disabled parking spaces outside the hotel," he said. "Not one had a disabled badge in.

"Some had been ticketed - but the fine will represent small change to the owners of such vehicles.

"What on earth leads such drivers to think they are entitled to behave like this?"

A reader has claimed he saw the drivers all standing with their vehicles this morning, none of them disabled - 'lots of women with fake tan and rollers and men wearing gold. All had parking tickets, some had 2. Fines they won’t pay!'

Another claimed:"They get away with it because people who can afford such vehicles have an inbred sense of entitlement."

Another argued: "These cars should have been towed away. Far too often I see Chelsea Tractors parking in disabled bays and when you try to point out the spaces for blue badges are for those with impairment, the drivers get rude and aggressive."

An accessibility campaigner has now claimed that the photo represents the 'ugly reality of life in York for disabled residents.'

Alison Hume, co-founder of York Accessibility Action, said it 'proves how toxic the situation is.'