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I've seen Boris cycling loads of times around Notting Hill and Westminster and he definitely turns up by bike to many of his meetings - to the point he's had about 3 bikes nicked in as many years... he doesn't seem to have a car following and normally chats to other cyclists in the advanced stop boxes.
I'm not sure he ever goes by "chauffeur driven" car but one other thing to note is that that one of the first things the current government did was to significantly reduce spending on ministerial cars - putting an end to the ridiculous sort of abuses that saw John Prescott being driven twice a day in a chauffeur driven car the 100 metres between his grace and favour apartment and the office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16576674
He definitely does. I've seen him riding through the City over London Bridge, and my wife nearly got run over by him on a zebra crossing in Angel.
Well I'm sure for some here, toad of city hall riding a bike makes him an alright geezer.
I'm sure I read somewhere that something like 200 pits were closed in the four years after Skargill took over as mine workers union leader, and that under Labour...
Thank you for pointing out that the industry was in decline. I think the point needs to be made was that if it was managed decline, then we quite possibly wouldn't still have social/economic problems we have in those former mining towns and villages we have today thirty or so years after the plug was abruptly pulled.
In a recent poll, 75 percent of commuters said they could handle the mental image of the pair writhing on the floor, their meaty hands crushing each others’ thighs and shoulders, if it meant not having to go on buses.
The London buses I've used so far seemed fine to me.
awesome, I quite agree take what you can and pass on the cost to customer everyone else. LU is a completely private organisation isn't it?
Whereas what you do is extract labour as cheaply as possibly, so maximum profit can be passed on to the already-rich, and screw everyone else.
I don't agree with Bob Crow because I think he in the long term is very bad for unions in general, and particularly the RMT.
Given that unions seen as less militant don't seem to be faring too well, I suspect the opposite is true.
I think the point needs to be made was that if it was managed decline, then we quite possibly wouldn't still have social/economic problems we have in those former mining towns and villages we have today thirty or so years after the plug was abruptly pulled.
Managed decline of former pit villages - ah, that wonderful concept!
You do realise of course that 'managed decline' through the history of the closure of mines actually meant stopping investing in villages that were seen as 'doomed' and watching them descend into social/economic deserts before bulldozing them into the ground?
And its resulted in a lot more than thirty years of pain, and wasn't done by the Tories:
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