Ministers on buses are living proof of democracy

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on Monday announced details of the new Conservative-Liberal coalition government's first austerity measures. The conservative daily ABC comments on the plans to limit the use of official cars by people who work for public authorities and the ministries: "For example all public servants will in future no longer be able to travel first class when they are on business trips either within the country or abroad, and the ministers are to dispense with their ministerial cars. A minister using the subway, the bus or a taxi is a spectacle with a profound democratic meaning. In old Europe only a few countries in the north and the British Isles, where the sense of equality is not just a religion but a social practice, can take such liberties."

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