NB Alan Milburn

[scarlett]

Recently disinterred Alan Milburn used to sell books in a left wing book shop called ' Days of Hope ' but was know locally as 'Haze of Dope'.

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[Twister_Ken]

As he popped off last time to spend more time with his family, should we conlcude that his family quickly got fed up with him and have kicked him out of the house (lower case h)

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[claymore]

Hmm - I wondered about that myself. Obviously re-incarnated with all past family difficulties now patched up. Wonder what he did?

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[benjenbav]

I'm just waiting to hear a politician admit having accepted a government post "in order to spend less time with my family"

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[maxi]

Never mind the £74,000 p/a plus expenses that you and I will have the privilege of paying him !!

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[jhr]

Interviewed on the radio yesterday, he was very much taking the line that our Tone had asked him to come back to see them throught the next election and that, thereafter, all bets were off. We'll see..............

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[jimi]

I find this a most peculiar situation. His role is to get Labour re-elected, his position is Cabinet ie Executive Government and he is getting paid by the tax payer .. surely there is something far wrong with our constitution which allows such crass conflict of interest?

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[jhr]

Yeah, but that's how it's always been. He is, at least, a politician, doing a politician's job. Where it gets really iffy, in my view, is situations where people are appointed to jobs that are ostensibly civil service positions (and therefore supposedly impartial) but perform what is effectively a political role. This has been happening more and more in recent years and, before everyone piles in, the last Tory Government were up to it as much as the current lot (Bernard Ingham's role, for example, was hardly that of an impartial bystander).

Depressing, but difficult to know what can be done about it.

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[ubuysa]

John Humphreys asked John Prescott this very question on Today this morning. I can't repeat his answer verbatim but it included lots of "it's perfectly clear" and "now come on John" and was full of his usual bluster (and bull***t).....

Tony C.

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[StugeronSteve]

"surely there is something far wrong with our constitution which allows such crass conflict of interest?"

It would be a big help if we had a consitution. I have always been of the impression that we are the only "western" nation without one. It sort of allows people to make up the rules as they go along.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[DavidM]

"and he is getting paid by the tax payer" I couldn't agree more. And this on top of the 400+ million for a parliament in which we have zero say!

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[Cornishman]

...out of the house and into the House??

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