Legally robbed!

Today I had the very distinctive displeasure of renewing my annual season ticket for zone 1 and 2. £856:00 is the price of the pleasure.

£851:40 (856:00 - 2 x £2.30 vouchers received for delayed trains) has now been robbed from my credit card. Last year, it was £808 so for another £48 and I have received sweet f*ck all more for the pleasure of travelling on the London Underground.

This is 5.6% increase and last time I checked the annual inflation in the UK was around 2%-mark. Since the so very stupid PPP (Public Private Partnership) is in place, part the increase will go to some stupid shareholder who probably drives to work.

Look, I don’t mind shareholders and capitalism except there is no place for them in PUBLIC service. Hint – it is public service. I actually think that the rental paid for the phone lines should be public owned instead of BT having monopoly of it. It is the public’s property, paid for by public money.

AND there is more really annoying thing – I just go two stops on my way to work. In the summer time, I walk home. But since the price structure of London Underground, I actually don’t save any money by walking home after work (I take the tube to work in the morning, there is no way that I will go up 30-40 minutes earlier).

Damn Tony Blair and his stupid for PPP initiative – he just had to push it through even though most Londoners didn’t want it. No wonder why Ken Livingstone got elected Mayor of London instead of TB’s crony Frank Dobson. At least, Ken tried to stop the PPP idea.

I will get equally pissed off again when I will read my credit card statement.

T H I E V I N G B A S T A R D S ! ! ! !