Illegal Traffic

The Department for Work and Pensions Withdrawal has decided not to renew the Government's contract with Addison Lee, a minicab firm which told its drivers to break the law by using bus lanes. Since the department is run by the brilliant Iain Duncan Smith, a spokesbeing was at pains to stress that the Government was not dispensing with the company's services because its management advocated criminal activity on the Queen's highways; oh, good heavens no. The contract has "come to its natural end", and minicab services are required less and less anyway because Government departments are being so fiscally virtuous these days. Doubtless coincidentally, the chair of this comparatively minor criminal enterprise has donated the price of a Daveybloke dinner to the Conservative party, and has lobbied Porker Hammond for use of the bus lanes before Hammond was called upon to replace Adam Werritty at the Ministry of War.