I have just booked my taxi for Christmas Day. It's not so long ago that public transport ran on that day. It's one when families like to get together but are likely to drink and be unable, therefore, to fetch all their near and dear, so many lonely Christmases are spent.
Probably a good proportion of drivers have no particular feeling for Christmas and consider it an ordinary day and wouldn't mind working. Having that day off would have to be a right for those who care.
Nothing ever gets done very fast, but I just wonder if there would be enough demand for this valuable service to be reinstated for Christmas Day 2012? By all accounts, it would seem we are due for even leaner times a year from now, and there is a lot of free fun to be had when families assemble in unaccustomed numbers.
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
I think its quite cool that there is one day a year when London is completely dead and they turn off the 3rd rail on the underground, and people can go exploring if they want to.
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