Originally Posted by Gavin

The poor sod is getting slaughtered left, right and centre for his first policy. Its all rather personal. The unions are complaining that staff now have to confront people drinking, but wouldn't they have to if passengers were smoking, trashing the carriages or otherwise being anti-social? I think they are jumping on him because:

a) they have to complain on behalf of their members whether they need to or not to justify their existance

b) He's Tory, posh, wealthy and eccentric.

He's pledging more PCSOs on transport but i'd rather see more BTPs instead. Still anything's better than nothing.

I think he's getting a really undeserved rough ride because of his character. That's really out of order. The guy hasn't done anything wrong and people have condemned him and are being extremely nasty. Still he has a great spirit and has pledged to plough on regardless. People wouldn't have responded this way to Red Ken, but then again the old lush wouldn't be able to go that long without a drink.