Ken Livingstone thinks it's your fault the buses don't run on time. Not the lack of security, letting kids rampage on and off the bus like monkeys at a safari park. Nahh, it's not the lack of regular reliable staff, or the old vehicles, and it's definitely NOT the mongoloid management. No sir. Although, that's probably doing a disservice to mongoloids. Some mongoloids are useful members of society and could run a transport system. Ken can't.

So is Ken wrong? Say it isn't so... It MUST be drunken malcontents counting out their Five-Pences that makes the buses run like, well, not like clockwork. So obviously it's justifyable and completely the right thing to do to make such scumbags as carry cash pay the extra pound, being that they have inconvenienced the mighty TfL with their hard earned filthy lucre?

No, Good Old Ken, would tell you, TfL is in dire need of Cash; (those PPP's don't come cheap) Consultants don't buy their own 5 course meals, and Bob Kiley has nearly stopped laughing after taking his brutal severance package. After all: What's an extra £1 between friends now and then, especially for such smiling consistently wonderful service?

Sorry Ken. Beyond the luxuries and certainties of bank accounts, direct debits, and advanced payment on Oyster is the insanity of dis-incentivising cash payment by these methods. What's next? Capacity pricing based on how many people are on the bus, or the time of day?

Either way the guy toiling on a fifty five hour week getting less then minimum wage is more likely to pay more than a stockbroker who can load his platinum oyster with a monkey at a time. [A monkey is £500 in Cockney parlance Dear readers}

Ken would probably say the poor guy should have got up earlier and walked to the shop to avoid inconveniencing the mighty TfL. But: who cares what Ken says anyway? It's TfL's job to make life easier for us, not us for them, how about getting back to moving people A-B in style, and speed rather then flailing around in some transparent anti-cash, anti-freedom, and anti-poor people experiment?

How about that Ken?

For all your Livingstone loving needs - take a look at http://www.exfl.com

---