Question: Why does BBC 2 always begin its traffic reports in Scotland and work south? As an example they will inevitably begin by reporting a lane closure on the A9 north of Pitlochry. Given the population density in those parts, even at the height of the tourist season, this probably means that three or four Jocks are going to experience a maximum of a five or, at most, a ten minute delay.
Meanwhile, on the M25 the Commissariat Militia (otherwise known as the Highways Agency Traffic Officer Service or “Traffic Wombles”) have closed three out of four lanes, causing ten to fifteen mile tailbacks and hours of delay to thousands of motorist’s journeys. All this because someone (now safely parked on the hard shoulder) has blown a tyre and left a small piece of tread on the inside lane.
Apparently they have to shut down so many lanes to maintain the safety of their officers; who are either policemen who have retired early on full pensions because they have a bad back, and are now raking in another publicly funded salary and amassing a second Civil Service pension, or wannabes who couldn’t get into the police force in the first place but now have a uniform and who think they have God like powers to lord it like Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.
The BBC however will make the huge majority of people who may be affected by this wait three of four minutes while they bang on about Berwick, Ballymena and Barnard Castle.
Can’t they begin their reports with the major hold-ups which are affecting the vast majority or is this another example of tipping our hats to the multicultural minorities?
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