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Watchin' last night's 6.00 News, I caught the article about Nick 'No-Chance' Clegg doing his one-day, whistle-stop campaigning tour of the UK. A feat of epic milage when you think about it, and which only a bus-load of Japanese tourists, Dr. Who or Father Christmas could ever come close to.
Anyway forgetting that, and the stage managed factory speech and the aftermath of bemused workers who didn't know who he was, Cleggy was photographed entering and exiting various modes of executive transportation including planes, Jaguars (supposedly Ministerial, though possibly rented from John Prescott) and from the Presidentially upholstered and euphemistically termed an' logo'd LibDem 'Battle Bus'.
Now, Battle-buses aren't something we see every day, they don't appear to go very far (about 200 yards in Cleggy's case), yet seemingly are the must-have accessory for politicians of all shades and persuasions.
My gripe is. Where do these things come from. Is there a factory in China somewhere, knocking them out to specification from old panzer tooling dies. And what happens to Battle-buses during the three years and eleven arse-free months when politicos aren't out doing their forked-tongued, vote begging and Uriah Heep impressions. Is there some big, crafty car-park where they hide the things, or are the Cleggy family allowed to use it for their holidays?
Now, Battle-buses look pretty big to me, and 'juicy' and proberbly cough-out a fair bit of CO2 too. Any normal citizen driving about in one of these things would most likely get an ASBO and still be paying one twenty per litre for petrol. So who's paying for all this. Is it Gordy, Dave an' Cleggy or their un-suspecting, never to get a ride in it, party faithful who's picking up the tab ... or, is it us?
Anyway forgetting that, and the stage managed factory speech and the aftermath of bemused workers who didn't know who he was, Cleggy was photographed entering and exiting various modes of executive transportation including planes, Jaguars (supposedly Ministerial, though possibly rented from John Prescott) and from the Presidentially upholstered and euphemistically termed an' logo'd LibDem 'Battle Bus'.
Now, Battle-buses aren't something we see every day, they don't appear to go very far (about 200 yards in Cleggy's case), yet seemingly are the must-have accessory for politicians of all shades and persuasions.
My gripe is. Where do these things come from. Is there a factory in China somewhere, knocking them out to specification from old panzer tooling dies. And what happens to Battle-buses during the three years and eleven arse-free months when politicos aren't out doing their forked-tongued, vote begging and Uriah Heep impressions. Is there some big, crafty car-park where they hide the things, or are the Cleggy family allowed to use it for their holidays?
Now, Battle-buses look pretty big to me, and 'juicy' and proberbly cough-out a fair bit of CO2 too. Any normal citizen driving about in one of these things would most likely get an ASBO and still be paying one twenty per litre for petrol. So who's paying for all this. Is it Gordy, Dave an' Cleggy or their un-suspecting, never to get a ride in it, party faithful who's picking up the tab ... or, is it us?
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