We’ve had a comment from someone purporting to be Local Councillor Doris English in our comments section. It’s in response to this news item. The item we published stated that her campaign, which warned of bruised ankles caused by cripples in wheelchairs, was perhaps a little misguided.
She has posted the following response..
“Who is crazy? The idiot who wrote that nonsense. Is it Libel shall I sue?”
First of all, we’d like to apologise for using free speech and we would like to point to our painfully obvious writing style. We would also like to point out that we didn’t mis-quote you.
Midland Expressway Limited have announced new prices for the M6 Toll, which runs through Burntwood and bypasses
the congested sections of the M6. New toll prices mean that cars will need to pay £5 on the main toll plazas, with trucks paying £10. The M6 Toll are keen to point out that drivers will earn a whacking 5% discount each trip if they have a tag – a corking 25p. We spoke to an M6 Toll customer as he approached the Burntwood junction..
“It’s still a good deal. I’ve got a tag and you avoid all the traffic and.. wait, what did you say. A fiver ? Are they mad? Let me see now, I have to pay £1 per month for this tag thing, and they give me a 25p discount every time I go through a booth? I only use it once a week. Crap. I’ve totally ballsed this one up.”
Head of communications at the M6 Toll, Mr Peter Wifflebottom, told us that there was a freeze on prices during nights, local booths and weekends. He also stated..
“The Directors here were running a bit short on cash. Jeffrey had to cut back on the gold plating for his toilet last week, so we decided to whack the prices up again.”
When The Burntwood Blog asked why prices were still being increased while the financial climate remained gloomy, Peter stated..
“Ahh f**k them. We’ve got everyone over a barrel basically, just bend over and take it. It’s a fiver a day, so if you used it for.. say, 50 weeks of the year, that’ll be two and a half GRAND from one person! Ha! Result! TWO AND A HALF FECKIN GRAND !”
Mark Jones, a regular user of the toll, told us..
“It’s either get up early, sit in traffic for 2 hours, or pay these crooks a fiver and sink down in my seat knowing that I’m being robbed blind for every passing mile. I wouldn’t mind so much, but I go north from T6 – that’s about a pound a mile!”
For more information, read the M6 Toll news release.
