http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2007/06/what-next-for-international-development.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2007/06/what-next-for-international-development.htm/comment-page-1#comment-558 dreamingspire Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:24:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1223#comment-558 You got in before us with that ‘shame about the photo’ over at the Fryer blog… A bit of self-publicising? Mention of Hilary Benn leads me to last night’s Question Time, where the BBC mysteriously doesn’t seem to have got round to posting on its web site the selection of viewers’ comments. I tried watching QT but switched off after a few minutes, such was the lack of discipline by most of the would-be Deputy Leaders. Hilary Benn was about the best. He needs to be careful to avoid thinking like his dad, who believed that engineering manufacturing could be run as a co-operative (the ignominious Meriden Motorcycle Co-op). One comment that I did find this morning suggested maliciously that maybe none of them want to win the contest, but all would like to be second. I’m not sure that applies to Alan Johnson, whose background should fit him to be a better Deputy Leader than by all accounts he is as Education secretary. I was in London on Tuesday, not far from the site of the partial building collapse, and I found that even the police wondered why so many of them had been turned out – but on reaching home I heard that the building housed Hazel Blears’ office, so we now how many of the emergency services people it takes to rescue her. You got in before us with that ‘shame about the photo’ over at the Fryer blog… A bit of self-publicising? Mention of Hilary Benn leads me to last night’s Question Time, where the BBC mysteriously doesn’t seem to have got round to posting on its web site the selection of viewers’ comments. I tried watching QT but switched off after a few minutes, such was the lack of discipline by most of the would-be Deputy Leaders. Hilary Benn was about the best. He needs to be careful to avoid thinking like his dad, who believed that engineering manufacturing could be run as a co-operative (the ignominious Meriden Motorcycle Co-op). One comment that I did find this morning suggested maliciously that maybe none of them want to win the contest, but all would like to be second. I’m not sure that applies to Alan Johnson, whose background should fit him to be a better Deputy Leader than by all accounts he is as Education secretary. I was in London on Tuesday, not far from the site of the partial building collapse, and I found that even the police wondered why so many of them had been turned out – but on reaching home I heard that the building housed Hazel Blears’ office, so we now how many of the emergency services people it takes to rescue her.

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