The Standard reports the unsurprising but nevertheless disgusting news that:
'A select group of government ministers are to be allowed to use the Olympic “Zil” lanes.Our political class really do sicken me. What are the chances that the Zil lanes stay in place after the Olympics have finished? Our lords and masters deserve to travel untroubled by the congestion that their subjects have to endure.
The revelation has infuriated London cabbies who are protesting at being banned from the lanes.
Earl Atlee, a government spokesman in the Lords, confirmed that some ministers would be able to use the lanes “on the advice of the security services” but added “that will apply to very few ministers indeed”.
They include Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Chancellor George Osborne, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Home Secretary Theresa May, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Olympics minister Hugh Robertson and Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson.'
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