THE Government has launched a website to search for a list of the greatest icons of English culture (icons.org.uk).

Among the list is the Routemaster bus.

It is ironic in the few months after the Routemaster was killed off by Ken Livingstone we are listing it as one of the things which defines us as a country.

This website proves the Routemaster is still very much loved and Livingstone was right when he said only "a dehumanised moron" would want to take them off the road.

But he is whimsical and his latest whim is the bendy bus.

The Mayor should hang his head in shame, let us hope for once he learns from one of his mistakes.

BOB NEILL
Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley