The London ‘bike-scheme’ starts today with more than 11,000 keys already ‘sold’ to potential renters of the 6, 000 bikes.
London bikes.
The bikes are rentable for £1 an hour or £50.00p for a week. Anyway I hope it works out.
Such a scheme would be unworkable in the north as 6,000 bikes going for as little as a £3 ‘key’ charge would simply mean, for local kids, FREE bikes to wreck on the local skatepark!
And boy have I seen some tasty bike-wrecks after having a bike-repair-shop close-by!
Mind you, the word is that in London folk actually work most of the time, so bike-stunting is reserved for nights and weekends!
I have strong reservations about such schemes because in the daily news I read of other ‘funded’ organisations that for-ever cost us tax-payers dear. British Airways. British Petroleum. British Telecom. British Gas. Banks….I could add shedloads more but they became so expensive they were, after much government and employee kicking and screaming, closed-down.
In this world there are, after all, stunts and stunts.
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Logging-on at the Mail this morning my tired eyes were suddenly opened by the ‘news’ that Work and Pensions guru, that nice Mr. Duncan-Smith, is to ‘tear-up’ the present welfare-system – especially Tax-Credits
Yikes, I thought, keep yer ‘air on old chuck! But I needn’t have bothered.
Rather than some real money-saving cut-backs they’re just going to phase-out the present Tax-Credit system and replace it with another. Apparently people earning up to £60,000.00p a year will be eligible to claim.
I just hope me and the other eight people that are left to actually fund this don’t mind!
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Also opening today is the London Super-Car Hire Scheme! It’s just £5,000 for a key and the cars cost £20,000.00p per day.
Already 40,000 of London’s Hedge-Fund Managers and Banking-Staff have signed-up!
Tony Hayward said, “Brilliant! It will gimme summat to do!” as he checked the nearest car for oil-leaks then hired it for a month!
Upon seeing the cars The Mayor of London said, “DOH!”
Bikes indeed!
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As I tinkered about here today I thought of the word ‘entrepreneur’ and, on a sudden impulse, put, ‘Entrepreneurial blogs’ into google.
Thousands of links came up but each had the familiar ‘.com’ suffix at url’s end and, when at the sites, money was $ and usually the sites were USA based.
I thought, mmmm…and put into google, ‘English entreprenuerial blogs’ into google. I was rewarded with stuff like,’…english-based entrepreneurial blog by (etc.)’ or, ‘entrepreneurial blog in english at (blah blah) .com’. Again the actual sites were American.
I obtained similar results for ‘British entrepreneurial blogs’.
So in the above short article about tax-credits please substitute the ‘eight’ with a ‘two’.
At one (US !?) site I noticed the initials: WIIFM. Boy, that took me back! (yawn!)
