When I fired off a tweet about my day trip to London last week, I didn’t expect it to be read by 12 million people around the world.
But that’s exactly what happened when I shared a few observations about our once-great capital under Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan. ‘All these things happened to me in London today,’ I wrote. ‘I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away – on a Saturday.
'The first person I sat next to decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone, so we all had to listen to it.
‘The train was late by 40 minutes due to unexplained “signalling issues”. It was also filthy. I paid nearly £8 for a pint. I offered a woman my seat on the Tube without realising she was with a man – who intervened and said: “No man.” He was not from the UK. I think he took my gesture as an insult.
‘I was asked for money by homeless people three times in one day.
