Well, on the day that the new car tax rates are in the news, and Walsall’s Arboretum island traffic light fuck up junction fails again throwing the town’s traffic into chaos, it’s announced that the Walsall-Wolverhampton train service is due to be axed because, according to transport minister Tom Harris, it “does not add value to the franchise”.

Whatever the fuck that means. I know a tendency to talk bollocks is required in politics, so as to avoid conveying any meaning, but would anyone like to take a stab at that one?

Once again, we’re taxed to hell and back for using cars, while our public transport so-called network gets reduced again.