{"id":5537,"date":"2011-03-29T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2011-03-29T21:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T21:35:02","slug":"and-the-second-cuckoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5537","title":{"rendered":"And the Second Cuckoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written recently about the logic-defying behaviour of this Mickey Mouse coalition we have, masquerading as a government, as it pertains to closing down tiny test centres (with huge overheads) in tiny villages and towns. One such being in Cumnock, Ayrshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just take a look at this latest episode in the saga, as reported by the Carrick Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most telling part is this:<\/p>\n

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Mike Penning said…\u201cWe will deliver driving tests in the community, where they should be, rather than a huge distance away, which was the previous Government\u2019s policy. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have inherited that policy, but I will not continue with it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I said some months ago this was all because of the decision having been made under Labour – not because of any voter-centric philanthropy on Penning’s part.<\/p>\n

So now the cuts will have to be made somewhere else in order to keep that two-up two-down terraced house in Cumnock operating as a driving test centre.<\/p>\n

I wonder what will happen in Yeovil<\/a> now that their test centre is moving? Fair enough, it’s only moving to somewhere else in Yeovil – but I’m sure some idiot driving instructor is already planning a campaign based on the extra \u00be mile (Yeovil is only about twice that distance end to end) some of them will probably have to travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written recently about the logic-defying behaviour of this Mickey Mouse coalition we have, masquerading as a government, as it pertains to closing down tiny test centres (with huge overheads) in tiny villages and towns. One such being in Cumnock, Ayrshire. Just take a look at this latest episode in the saga, as reported by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}