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Feelin' blue
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Stuart Thomas looks at the way the transport industry has been portrayed in the media over the last month... and at the politicians' sad attempts to offer too little, too late
Shortly before the election spewed out its damning verdict, Henley Conservative candidate and Spectator editor Boris Johnson attempted to woo a sceptical public with a last-ditch rallying call in The Daily Telegraph.
Bumbling Boris discovered that the effects of the Working Time Directive could be used to hammer home Labour's failure to help those on "modest incomes".
He explained how he had bumped into a woman delivering papers while he was busy accosting the public in the hope of persuading them to vote blue.
"No, she said, slightly tetchily, she wasn't going to vote for anyone... her husband had just been told he couldn't work more than 48 hours per week and it was costing them, as a family, £500 per month."
Finally, the illumination Johnson must have been craving for on his hustings shone forth: And then it suddenly occurred to me that yes, I could help her" He announces to his victim if the Conservatives win they will attempt to back out of the Social Chapter and the imposition of the 48-hour week: "Here it was, that intersection between a manifesto pledge and a real human existence."
Sadly, despite the woman's husband warming to Johnson's newly discovered theme, the newspaper deliverer proved harder to convince: "You all make promises'... and she gave me a wan smile and went on her way." Unfortunately for Johnson, much of the country offered his party a "wan smile" later that day too. ,Labour has run out of hope, money and ideE Police are invesligating after a motorist's nose was broken by a sausage, thrown through his open car window, according to the BBC News website.
"It must have been an incredibly lucky, or unlucky, shot to get the sausage through a moving car window," said an ambulance spokesman, presumably with not so much awe in his voice as heartfelt concern.