Last week we rang the council to order some compostable bin bags, which it sells so residents can recycle organic waste. “No problem,” said the lady at the council. “They’ll be delivered within 3-4 weeks.”
If it takes 3-4 weeks for a government body to deliver some bin bags – it’s no surprise that 1,000s of distinguished foreign visitors found themselves stranded at Canning Town in the pouring rain on the first morning of WTM, because the DLR had gone kaput.
The question on all those foreign lips was: “How on earth will they cope with the Olympics?”
Since any challenge – from bin bags to Olympics – to a government department seems met with blithering incompetency, how indeed?
From Dr Beeching’s wholesale destruction of our rail network in the 1960s to John Major’s hopelessly botched Railtrack privatisation, to the current shambles, politicians seem to have a blind spot when it comes to any form of travel in the UK.
So who can we turn to for answers to our problems? What about those in the know – all the travel professionals out there? Please help!
This business of travel 