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Will they also start taking the tube without complaining that they're not riding in a rolls Royce?

• gaius 16y ago
  Probably. It was reported in The Times that Cameron has slashed the size of the PM's entourage, e.g. no motorcycle outriders for his motorcade. He says if he gets stuck in a traffic jam he'll just wait like anyone else. Whereas I remember when Tony Blair wanted to go for a drive, entire roads were shut. Nothing like going for a sandwich at lunch and finding all of Ludgate Circus cordoned off and I just wanted to get to Pret on the other side of the road!
  • arethuza 16y ago
    If he keeps up stuff like that I might actually start to like the man.
    • hugh3 16y ago
      Wow, can we make him President of the United States too? I've only seen a US presidential motorcade once, but it had some thirty vehicles and travelled at about sixty miles an hour down a closed-off street. That, combined with the private 747, is probably the most obscene thing about the modern US presidency. Waiting in traffic in an unmarked car would do the President a lot of good. Yes, I know it's for security, but nobody has taken a shot at a Presidential motorcade for nearly fifty years, and simply having a roof would have solved Kennedy's problem.
      • gaius 16y ago
        Tony Blair wanted a private jet too but the media derided it as "Blair Force One" and the idea was quietly scrapped. New Labour got a lot of credit from some for scrapping the Royal Yacht, but they neglected to point out that in wartime the Royal Yacht was a actually fully-functional hospital ship. When we're not at war, why not use it for diplomatic functions?
        • arethuza 16y ago
          I remember the arguments about the Royal Yacht - they seemed to make a lot of sense to me and I'm fairly anti-Royal. From what I can remember at the time it was stopped to provide some desperately needed class-warrior credentials for New Labour - the Royals being fairly easy targets as they can't complain too much.