those were the days

once upon a time the Queen Mary in wartime risked submarines to cross the Atlantic at 40 knots carrying 40,000 troops the hell with danger , this week stranded passengers in santander refused on a ship once the normal quota was filled , there are no u boats no, ice bergs but we stuck to the rules .what a lumbering timid country we've become; lord Adonis never was a man less aptly named ,can't even organise buses to rescue people from Madrid . there are 4 times as many people in ministry of transport than ran the whole of the British empire .yet we cant manage rescue a few tourists what a government- i cant imagine what people who are useless at everything want to stay in power for