Hora your argument is a tad circular is it not? First off you're complaining about taxis getting to breeze around in bus lanes. Then you say that they're clogging up the capital's transport system. As you correrctly point out, they are damn useful, particularly for elderly or diabled people, but then you go off on one against those who use them out of choice. Make your mind up, there's a good chap.
Noel's Wikipedia entry really brings home how genuinely odd he is for someone who's been a nigh-on f–king inescapable presence in popular culture for the past 40 years:
For many years Edmonds has been a believer in Spiritualism, in particular the concept of Cosmic ordering. He has claimed that he is occasionally visited by two melon-sized "spiritual energy" balls, which appear over his shoulders and which he believes to be the spirits of his dead parents.