The Bomber Command Memorial

In a moving ceremony that brought tears to many the Bomber Command Memorial was unveiled by the Queen today. I look forward to seeing the completed Memorial next week as I pass it on the Number 19 or number 22 bus. I have been watching its progress each week since construction first started several months ago. Yesterday on the way to Green Park in the Number 22 there were a few people with Unite banners in Albert Gate off Knightsbridge shouting for strike action if they don't get the bonus they want for working through the Olympics. The bus driver honked them no doubt in support of their greed for a bigger bonus than the Bus Companies are prepared to give them. They have seen the tube drivers get their outrageous bonus and so they want theirs. The bus drivers have been offered £8.5m to share between them and have voted for two more strikes on the 5th and 24th of next month although if it was like the last strike that took place on 22nd June it will have little effect in this part of town as all the bus drivers around here continued working. 70% of bus drivers did not vote in the strike ballot but of those that did a majority voted in favour. It is ridiculous that a minority tail can wag the dog in this way and as many have said before it really is time that a vote to strike can only win if a majority of those entitled to do so exercise their vote. Lucky for this country that none of those flying bombers in the last war went on strike. They had a proper pride in their country and were prepared to sacrifice themselves so that the rest of us could be free. The bus drivers and the tube drivers have shown no pride in their country but a deplorable meanness of spirit that is shaming.