I believe that most people who voted for Boris Johnson did so not because they thought he’d make a good mayor but rather they believed he was the only option to get rid of Ken. Will this be a mistake? Personally I don’t think Ken did too bad a job, he was never a brilliant mayor but was better than most other mainstream politicians. (more…)
I have to say that overall I’m not too happy with the first few months of the National Express East Coast franchise. In fact, the only good thing I can say about them is that gner.co.uk redirects to their website so I don’t have to type the ridiculously long nationalexpresseastcoast.com if I’m on a computer where it’s not bookmarked. I suspect the people at the NXEC commuter blog are wishing for a return of GNER, their blog was originally set up to criticise GNER and they were happy that they lost their franchise. Perhaps now they can admit that GNER wasn’t all that bad really 
So far I’ve noticed the following on my travels with NXEC… (more…)