The Economy

[wirralbus]

RE: The Economy

(22/10/2012 09:41)DVL418 Wrote:  

(21/10/2012 22:36)wirralbus Wrote:  

(21/10/2012 22:32)DVL418 Wrote:  I read Gideon tried to sneak into 1st class with a standard class ticket on a Virgin train to London on Friday and the train manager had the courage to face him down.

Gideon, like royalty and toffs doesn't carry cash or credit/debit cards, so one of his flunkies had to pay up.

Bob Crow will be proud of his comrade!

Just wonder if this had been Gordon Brown or Alistair Darling would it have been the same .

Your point?

Don't forget that rules introduced in around 2009 specify that MP's traveling to/from constituency (Gideon was travelling back to London from Wilmslow in this Tatton consituency) only get re-imbursed for second class travel. If they want to travel 1st class , they pay for the upgrade out of own pocket. Also pay for any political flunkies' travel costs from own allowance.

If travelling in connection with ministerial, duty special branch do risk assesment - Virgin West Coast is deemed as 'low risk' whilst most suburban railways a understandably deemed to be higher risk, so rarely passed as appropriate for high profile ministers, although Vince Cable insists on using South West Trains to travel into Westminster from his Twickenham constituency each day.

Virgin Standard class i would also call high risk , First Class though would reasonably be deemed low risk .