There are those who email me from Westminster, Fleet Street and elsewhere to say that, while everything that I write about Harriet Harman is common knowledge among those with uncommon knowledge, it is nevertheless beneath this blog to mention her at all.
Well, be that as it may, but I cannot keep silent on her call to end bus services to middle-class areas.
Harman is the sort that cannot understand why people drive taxis when it is so much more convenient to ride in the back of them. She and George Osborne look startlingly alike. Are they by any chance related? I think we should be told.
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I lack this uncommon knowledge, I'm afraid, since I don't move in the rarefied circles of your correspondents. When has she called to end bus services to middle class areas?
ReplyDeleteOver the weekend. Geoff Hoon went ballistic, apparently.
ReplyDeleteHarman thinks that this is appealing to the working class. That is how little she knows.
ReplyDeleteShe is genuinely unaware that buses pass through middle-class areas in order to get to, from and between working-class areas. What are they supposed to do? Just not stop? Or go through complicated diversions, thereby increasing the journey time?
ReplyDeleteWhat next, trains to pass through "middle-class" towns without stopping? What is she on?
ReplyDeleteNow, if she was calling for municipal control of the bus companies, then she'd be appealing to me. The cost of our privatised public transport is horrific - pay and conditions have worsened for staff, and now councils actually subsidise some routes!