Boris Bus Checksum Error

Buses are a bit of an issue for the People's Haystack. Before the notorious promise of £350 million a week for the NHS, there was the New Routemaster: one of several vanity projects forced into mewling, abortive existence at the taxpayer's expense while the Haystack was playing at being mayor of London. The New Routemasters were commissioned to replace double-length, single-decker "bendy buses" which supposedly encouraged fare-dodging; they were to have lots of doors and a conductor to take your threepenny bits although, true to the spirit of the mayor whose vision of the London Underground was driverless trains travelling between staff-free stations, the conductors were quickly sacked. The new buses proved unpopular with passengers, who tended to broil in warm weather; if the Haystack had any noticeable head for details one might suspect a deliberate strategy to punish the plebs for being too idle to afford chauffeured limousines. Naturally, it now turns out that the New Routemasters facilitate fare-dodging at twice the rate of less rah-rah models, and I am sure we can all be confident that the promise of a Brexit dividend for the NHS will turn out at least equally well.