Taxi for Peston

(Guest post from David Beresford)

Christmas is coming the goose isn't getting a bonus. The financial crisis is so boring and there is nothing new to report. So BBC London news last night dedicated a five minute segment to the story of one cab driver. This poor soul had recently purchased a newly designed white taxi for around £35k and was bemoaning the plight of the London cabbie. A few things sprung to mind. Firstly in this economic downturn why would anyone buy a brand new taxi? Secondly why would he buy a vehicle that didn't look like a traditional black cab? Quite possibly the reason that his earnings have started to plummet is that nobody knows he is a cab? 

Another taxi driver gave a better appraisal of the economic situation than that Peston chap, who reappeared to discuss the collapse of Hungary, Ukraine, Iceland and the Isle of White. The afore mentioned taxi driver summed matters up as follows, to precis: "sometimes there are bad days, but so far they haven't added up to bad weeks, but if they do then I am concerned that the bad weeks may become bad months. And if, in a year, there are more than six bad months, well, that is a bad year. "

Thank goodness Spooks is back. However the bomb that killed Adam didn't really look as though it caused that much destruction. The decision to drive the vehicle for two minutes to a random open space seemed a little contrived. Possibly Adam had just had enough of that Hermione Norris woman.