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True, true. Still got that milestone to look forward to!

In Southampton? How come? Oi Alan @thelargeone, I've changed my view! I AM moaning at the council for not doing more to help old people! How come Southampton can do it? :lolol:

No! I wasn't whinging at Brighton Council per se, indeed I never even mentioned 'Brighton Council' in my original post, just 'Brighton' the geographical entity. I made the, accurate, point that in Brighton you have to be 66 to get a bus pass, and this isn't the case in large parts of the rest...

Eh? Hope you don't mean my whining, which we've established is at the RIGHT people. See Lord Bracknell's posts.

I'm aware of most of that, it doesn't invalidate my point though - and it certainly doesn't invalidate my original point that English people outside London are treated worse than they are in the rest of the UK. There is one point I wasn't aware of though - I didn't know that bus patronage was...

Thanks! Much appreciated!

So it isn't a national policy then, unlike say motorway speed limits or indeed the qualifying age for the state pension. As you say it's devolved. Which leads me on to ... Yes I have complained. Brighton Council (the political hue doesn't matter) built a private company a private road network...

Well if it's a national policy - how come it isn't applied nationally? Why the regional discrepancies? And what else have have I wrongly blamed on local government?

Apparently I can get into the Brighton Museum free! Now all I've got to do is get there ...

A few days ago I turned 60. Obviously now my slow slide towards decrepitude and death will accelerate considerably, and I was rather hoping to get some freebies to take my mind off it. With that in mind I thought I'd try and get a free bus pass, and I discovered the following iniquitous...