Ben Abbotts canvassing a couple of Cheeky Girls in Bromley.
Beyond an antediluvian pun in the title, words fail me.
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theguardian Diary claimed on Tuesday that frivolous (and, indeed, non-frivolous) Early Day Motions each cost the taxpayer £290.
Wasn’t a larger figure than this – four figures, I think – quoted in the past? Surely the actual unit cost can’t be that high? If this is calculated by dividing the total cost of running the system by the number of EDMs, it’s quite possible that by proposing more EDMs, MPs actually serve to reduce this figure further (with the total cost increasing, but rising more slowly than the current average a time) and if they restrained themselves the average cost per EDM would actually go up even if the overall costs fell.
The LibDems have acquired another blogging Lord, and their first blogging hereditary peer, in the shape of Lord Avebury, aka Eric Lubbock, former MP for Orpington.
You can read about, amongst other thing, his exploits on the by-election trail in Bromley and his speeches in the House of Lords at http://ericavebury.blogspot.com/. I met him in Orpington during the General Election last year and a very good chap he is, with a strong track record on human rights. Hopefully he will join LibDem Blogs soon.
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According to theguardian:
The education secretary, Alan Johnson, dismissed the accusation, saying: “The point about John Reid is he is not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. He doesn’t get pushed around by anyone.”
Could someone with more literary nous explain the allusion? Was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm particularly acquiescent?
I now can’t shake an image of John Reid as The First Mrs de Winter.
Next time:
The education secretary, Alan Johnson, dismissed the accusation, saying: “The point about Tony Blair is he is not Rhett Butler. He isn’t a Southern gentleman and he does give a damn.”
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