We Seem to Be Run by a Parade of Private Godfreys ; Quentin Letts Yesterday in Parliament [Edition 2]

Daily Mail › February 12, 2009

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THE political story of the day, surely, was the failure of Mayor Boris Johnson to get London's public transport system working after a few feeble inches of snow. The city was paralysed. Reason? Timidity over health and safety.

The Commons uttered not a whimper of protest. It even went along with the general gutlessness of this once stoical nation and finished early so that doorkeepers could get home early.

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We Seem to Be Run by a Parade of Private Godfreys ; Quentin Letts Yesterday in Parliament [Edition 2]

A Whitehall department, meanwhile, gave civil servants a day off so that they could play snowballs. The Mayor should have been hauled to the bar of the House to explain himself. ...

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