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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Pete on January 09, 2013, 08:04:30 PM

Title: Not good with trains?
Post by: Pete on January 09, 2013, 08:04:30 PM

After Osborne's little wobble with which class to travel, comes this story:

Simon Burns, minister responsible for train fares, uses £80,000-a-year chauffeur-driven government car to 'avoid overcrowded trains'

News is likely to provoke more anger from commuters still reeling from the New Year inflation-busting rise in train fares last week.

Burns, the Conservative MP for Chelmsford, travels the 35 miles between his home in Essex and Westminster using an £80,000-a-year departmental car service.


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Title: Re: Not good with trains?
Post by: Fly on January 09, 2013, 08:17:16 PM

Bit like the Chesterfield Town Mayor.
Uses the Nexus to go from the Town Hall to Rykneld Square.
 

Title: Re: Not good with trains?
Post by: Pete on January 09, 2013, 08:24:05 PM

You've got mobile phones on the brain matey...  :))

Title: Re: Not good with trains?
Post by: Fly on January 09, 2013, 08:25:29 PM

Quote from: Pete on January 09, 2013, 08:24:05 PM

You've got mobile phones on the brain matey...  :))

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