Not sure if any of you follow Scottish politics, which in a quid pro quo way you should because we follow the England cricket team. Well the recent bad weather has forced the resignation of the transport minister, Stewart Stevenson. It’s in his brief to look out for unusual weather patterns and the storm last Monday caught him out.
When the roads are dangerous I never drive. Luckily, everything is handy for me so I don’t really need the car. However, my wife likes to shop in far flung places like Livingston and she says my position as transport secretary is on a sticky wicket.
As you know batteries run out so I “turn” the motor over every two days. Noticing that the petrol was running low I had to go to a garage. But I didn’t drive I walked; I just took my ten litre plastic petrol container with me. Have you seen the price of petrol, lately? Man, this is steep and VAT will be rising in January to increase the price. After the tuition fees protest I can well see the haulage companies and truckers being the next to go anarchic.
As for me, as I was filling my little jug up at the fuel station, I had visions of a passing journalist with a camera shooting me and thinking he’d got a scoop. My mug shot would be in the pages of the Daily Record under the headline- Panic Buying at the Pumps.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Then the green taxes kick in to buy new Mercedes motors for any corrupt third World politician or bureaucrat who can get his snout into the trough. Welcome to ‘Back to the 19th Century.’
Can I protest at the fact that even though you’ve been housebound you haven’t had the courtesy to reply to my comment on your last post!
Good evening, JW.
Delighted to hear that Mrs JW gets as far east and close to civilisation as Livingston. Sensible woman.
Stevenson had to go. His ‘first class response’ on ‘Newsnight’ on Monday night was utterly crass in the circumstances. Good to see wee sleekit Salmond getting so much grief. What a load of keech about the Opposition parties playing party politics. Can you imagine what he would have been saying if this had all happened when Labour/Lib Dems were in power? I know he’s a Jambo but I just cannot stand the shelpit scunner.
I get the feeling, by the way, that Scottish politics do not fascinate the majority of our fellow bloggers hereon, But then, the same’s probably true of cricket, with a few honourable exceptions.
Six points behind the Unmentionables and nine points behind the Huns and on a major charge with a rapidly improving goal difference! I reckon it’s only a matter of days before Romanov sacks the manager. It’s what he usually does when things are going too well.