School buses

Saw a very Irish thing yesterday. Coming around past Christchurch on a bus i spotted another double decker parked on the right. It caught my eye because it was petrol blue and had stuff painted on the back: low floor, seat belts fitted, super green school bus. It was packed full of kids. There was another double bus in front of it. It was royal mail red, and old, with a high floor, no seat belts and about as eco-friendly as that SUV blocking the school gates. It was packed full of kids.

Why is it that one set of kids gets an adequate bus and another gets one that would make the peasants of Dickens blush?

I hate this half-assed cheapskate shit. Nearly two years ago a bus flipped over in navan and killed five schoolgirls. An outcry followed. Promises were made. Every child will have a seatbelt on their school bus by Christmas 2006 said lying ministers Martin Cullen and Mary Hanafin.

Tossers. Shame on them - shame on all the reactionaries on this island who ignore the dangers of skimping on a few quid until there are children in the ground. It's politics driven by media and it's very bad politics.

Where are the new school buses FF/PDs?