The conspiracy against the Wharf

I think it's time the tube drivers found somewhere else to have a fag and stop setting the bleeding alarm off.

Closing Bank cuts off the Docklands from the rest of London. You could get the Jubilee line but that involves doubling back, changing Tubes.

When you have rolled out of bed to allow maximum sleep, minimum commute, you do not have time to change direction and still get to work before your boss starts tutting.

I wonder if it's a containment issue? Every time the credit crunch, the unemployment, and the current economic mess are mentioned on TV, up flash images of the Wharf.

Britain is stuck in a universal version of the Rorschach test, where instead of the murderer seeing beheaded children in the ink blots, the population sees recession in pictures of Canary Wharf.

The logic of the powers that control Bank is if they just close off the Docklands from the rest of London, they will be able to stop the spread of gloom and doom.

Either that or there has been an outbreak of Mexican swine flu and no one has told us.

The Jubilee line was originally a safer bet, but any advantage has been lost to the overflow of commuters from the DLR.

Now even those arriving through Foster's bubblegum bubble have the sweat drenched psychotic demeanour induced by regular exposure to rush hour travel.

I was not surprised when making polite small talk with my cab companion he told me it was not the stress of hanging onto his job that had visibly aged him more than his years, it was the commute.