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I take it you didn't get to Strasburg then due to the snow. Shame, I hear they were expecting 12 inches tonight. Kerry McCarthy MP is impressed with 8 inches, so she says
Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head. Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Lil Bo Johnson is saying his prayers.
Rather pathetic performance from the "never on a sunday" London boroughs who did not show true grit.
Perhaps someone will analyse the political stripe of the major slackers of the salt?
Although he cannot look at the country's books, how would his government respond to the downturn, who would he bail out who would he let go bust, would tax cuts be the best stimulus package?
I'm a Blairite - liberal tory, lastly can I ask, 'David can you take a spare shoe to PMQs!'
Hey, don't blame TfL, blame the local authorities who weren't able to grit all the roads used by buses. Having seen the amount of traction some other large vehicles were getting on some roads yesterday, I entirely agree that it wasn't safe to run buses on those roads.
The buses ran normally, the bins were emptied, and the schools stayed open here in County Durham yesterday. But not everywhere, I understand.
Part of the blame must attach to the use of metric measurements. People heard the large number of centimetres and thought of them as much like inches. So they stayed in the house rather than dare venture out.
But there is the bigger story that London is leading the way in the descent of Britain into the status of a Third World country, capable of being paralysed by severe but fully predicted and entirely seasonal weather conditions, having a tiny but very visible class of the eye-poppingly super-rich within easy shooting distance of the most extreme poverty and violence, run by a colourful buffoon and his court of crooks, and so many other ways besides.
Contrary to what is usually assumed in London, Britain rarely follows where what is in many ways a foreign country leads. Culturally, that is remaining, and will remain, the case. It might very well become even more so. But economically, socially and politically we are to have, and we are already having, no such luck.
Very funny!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's some kind of warning for London Transport running the original ads! lol
My version is better.
ReplyDeleteI take it you didn't get to Strasburg then due to the snow. Shame, I hear they were expecting 12 inches tonight. Kerry McCarthy MP is impressed with 8 inches, so she says
Erm....
ReplyDeleteYou're doing it on purpose, aren't you?
"Trying to get inside Nigel Farage's head. But with mixed success. about 2 hours ago"
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ReplyDelete"It was the right kind of snow,there was just too much of it".
Er, yes, scroll down and you will see I posted that this morning!
ReplyDeleteOr the Late Arriva as people who suffer their indifferent bus and train services would put it...
ReplyDeleteLittle Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
ReplyDeleteDroops on the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Lil Bo Johnson is saying his prayers.
Rather pathetic performance from the "never on a sunday" London boroughs who did not show true grit.
Perhaps someone will analyse the political stripe of the major slackers of the salt?
"There's probably no service today"
ReplyDeleteAlthough he cannot look at the country's books, how would his government respond to the downturn, who would he bail out who would he let go bust, would tax cuts be the best stimulus package?
ReplyDeleteI'm a Blairite - liberal tory, lastly can I ask, 'David can you take a spare shoe to PMQs!'
Hey, don't blame TfL, blame the local authorities who weren't able to grit all the roads used by buses. Having seen the amount of traction some other large vehicles were getting on some roads yesterday, I entirely agree that it wasn't safe to run buses on those roads.
ReplyDeleteThe buses ran normally, the bins were emptied, and the schools stayed open here in County Durham yesterday. But not everywhere, I understand.
ReplyDeletePart of the blame must attach to the use of metric measurements. People heard the large number of centimetres and thought of them as much like inches. So they stayed in the house rather than dare venture out.
But there is the bigger story that London is leading the way in the descent of Britain into the status of a Third World country, capable of being paralysed by severe but fully predicted and entirely seasonal weather conditions, having a tiny but very visible class of the eye-poppingly super-rich within easy shooting distance of the most extreme poverty and violence, run by a colourful buffoon and his court of crooks, and so many other ways besides.
Contrary to what is usually assumed in London, Britain rarely follows where what is in many ways a foreign country leads. Culturally, that is remaining, and will remain, the case. It might very well become even more so. But economically, socially and politically we are to have, and we are already having, no such luck.
Naughty, Naughty. You should disclose your source - http://ruletheweb.co.uk/b3ta/bus/ - very amusing though. Good find.
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