If you write to TfL or the Mayor’s office or your London Assembly Member to express your opinion, please consider copying us or Dave Hill at the Guardian in on it. There’s a world of difference between analysing pound signs in the abstract and the reality of being caught out by a badly advertised and ill-thought-out change.

So imagine my announce the over day when returning from Summerfield’s when I found that I did not have enough money on my Oyster because it had automatically switched back to the standard fair and I had to cough up £2 for a trip that I expecting to pay only 45p!

Now I am not sure you actually blame Boris personally for this poor service, but perhaps it is indicative of the new regime – both in its contempt for the poor, and its blinding incompetence.