ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE! Who actually running Brexit .... and there's a timetable that no one's adhering to

by Our Man at the Bus Stop who actually has seen three coming along at once but afterwards none when you wanted one




To Begin at .... the Beginning

Picture yourself (go on) at the Brighton Royal Hospital the other day, after the Second Test, walk to the Bus Station in The Steine, find the Stagecoach 700 Coastliner stop (one every 10 minutes), just miss one, and, yes, within that ten minutes another 700 comes along to (not exactly) wisk one to Littlehampton.



[Intermission:  on the walk, you see the Spiritualist Church and realise that they probably did not consult an architect of note 'on the other side'.

Also, for scenic interest, also passed this

End of Intermission]

So, the said 700 proceeds to Hove - btw on the journey I see ONE homeless person on the street, compare: Bognor Precinct.

Bus ambles along, well-used, a hold up at Shoreham due to road works etc, and then past Worthing Pier, when I notice that we form part of a procession of THREE of the 700's.

"Mercy sakes, we have us a convoy!"    I/d film please ....

And thence on by degrees to Anchor Springs Littlehampton, where I disembark to catch ....  a 700.   Ah not the Brighton-to-Littlehampton version (every 10 minutes) but the Littlehampton-to-Chichester (every 20 minutes, or so).    The next of which is due (according to the electronic bus stop sign) in about 12 minutes.


Or not, it just passes and No Bus.   Then we await the one in 20 minutes at 52 past the hour  .... which passes and then we are told it will be another 19 minutes....   ahem .....

In the meantime, Brighton-bound 700's have been turning up and around with (how apt)  gay abandon even.   In fact, by the time the Bognor-bound 700 turns up, TWELVE Brighton 700s have departed.  Would you Adam'n'Eve it.



I query Mr Cheerful, the Misterman Bus Driver to Bognor:  "Mine's on time". (He's not Mr Cheerful, Mr Cheerful's in another book.)  OK then, there we are.

I considered, as one does as one waits for Delayed Events, all sorts of things, and it CAME TO ME that I now know who's running our Brexit departure.   Stagecoach, or at least the bit which manages also the Littlehampton-Bognor stage.

Reasons:

• Both appear to being subject to delays to a timetable
• There's no rhyme or reason any sane person can see
• No Deal = No Service, and I have seen the latter, it's not what it's made out to be
• Any service to Bognor is like a Deal
• The Brighton-Littlehampton run is the EU (well there's all them foreigners in Brighton after all)

Conclusion:   Whatever happens, 

BLAME STAGECOACH