We saw what happens when these colleagues are put in charge. There was a Labour councillor running the body in charge of public transport. I remember him well from my time in the Council. He came to speak at a conference in Dundee. Myself and my colleagues travelled by train; Dundee is well linked with public transport. He took his car, and I asked him if as a representative of the public transport industry, he ought to set an example and use it. Well, he told me he didn’t go in for gesture politics.
At any rate, it appears that his co-directors had a jolly good time, jetting off around the globe, staying in luxury hotels and even attending a football cup final These trips were presumably for the purpose of seing how other cities run their public transport systems, and to learn lessons from this.