On Tue, 27 May 2008 20:47:54 +0100, Paul wrote:

doubling bus and tram fares for the poor is apparently perfectly OK
From the BBC article cited in the first post of the thread:
"The mayor of London said half-price bus and tram fares for 250,000
Londoners on income support, which were also funded by the deal, would
still be honoured."

The BBC have got that wrong. (Or perhaps just not been thorough enough
in a their bank holiday reading of a deliberately unclear press
release.)

Boris is only honouring the half-price deal until the end of its
original duration, i.e. the first year, which ends this August (and
would undoubtedly have been renewed under the previous Mayor).

AIUI, even that's not quite right. The thing whose original duration
was until August was the oil deal, not the half-price fares.