Are There No Limousines?

As befits a ministry whose former Secretaries of State include the intellectual firebucket Chris Graybeing, the oafish war criminal Butcher Hoon, and the selection of funny faces that comprise Grant Shapps, the Department for Transport has in recent years shown itself largely concerned with depriving people of transport. The present incompetent is Mark Harper, a sometime Home Office thug in charge of Tumbledown Tessie's Wogs Out vans; and his spokesbeing's answer to research demonstrating the effect on public transport of fifteen years' worth of tax cuts and poor-bashing was predictably disdainful of metropolitan élitists assembling mere facts. To indications that bus services have declined by more than eighty per cent outside the capital, the Ministry for Motoring responded with a boast that during the past couple of years it had also cut a billion from rail services.