Tristán White wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in
ps.com:

Tristán White wrote:

... when we mere mortals, on our way to a pop concert saying "sorry I
lost my ticket", would most certainly have been charged £20??

And should David Cameron, as an example to follow, not have insisted
on paying the £20 rather than plea for clemency? Perhaps he's trying
to get even more hoodies' votes whom he keeps urging us all to hug.

Whilst the fact that our future PM may be a Morrisey fan is kind of
cool,
I
really can't bear any Tories and least of all those who purport to be
"a man of the people" in this fashion. The People's PM. **** off.

Anyone would be better than Bliar. But my vote is certainly not going
to
go
to either party at the moment. It'll be either Respect or the Lib
Dems, like last time.


You've gotta give some kind of reference so we can decipher your rant.

You're post implies that Cameron got nabbed without a ticket on the
Tube, claiming he'd lost it, and managed to pay the £3 fare rather
than the £20 penalty fare. A quick search of BBC News online doesn't
yield any such story, so please provide a source.


In the evening's paper:

http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/b...12/1848/3/5/0/

Thanks - I'd not clocked the fact that a full facsimile of the print
version of thelondonpaper is available in full online, is this a new
thing?

I see said story is also on the ThisIsLondon website:
http://tinyurl.com/ylnbn9

I managed to lose my ticket fairly recently whilst on the Tube (twas an
unregistered Oyster which was pretty low in credit). I wasn't in a rush
and was fairly close to an ungated station so I headed there, exited
the paid area then bought myself a new ticket rather than risk getting
a penalty fare if I'd declared my situation at a gated station. I'm
sure that's not the proceedure I was supposed to follow but after an
absolute hell of a day it was a no-fuss solution to my predicament. And
the pint at the pleasant nearby hostelry gave me a little time to
regain my composure!