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« Reply #47 on: October 03, 2008, 14:35:22 » |
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« Reply #48 on: October 03, 2008, 15:36:05 » |
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Have Opus Dei something against rail travel I wonder. Clearly Ms Kelly has problems with travelling by train, and possibly any sort of public transport, and the fact that the unwashed of society who do, have been asking too many difficult questions have finally got to the poor lass. Spending more time with the children is clearly a smoke screen as she has a bit of previous in this regard. http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/01/25/the-dying-art-of-answering-questions-and-ruth-kellys-train-travel/Although it is difficult to know where exactly she lives, getting to Bolton West for your constituents by public transport should put a smile on her face when she eventually does it. |
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« Reply #49 on: October 03, 2008, 15:59:57 » |
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Constituency - Ashfield, served by a railway line newly re-opened in 1995. Hopefully this will mean that he understands and appreciates how helpful a decent railway service will be ... and will do everything to assist in such a decent service being provided in FGW▸ territory, including the Bristol area, Portishead, and across Wiltshire  Good to see this one has an English Consituency so that his decisions actually effect the people who voted for him. Is the other guy who represents a seat near Glasgow still under him looking after rail? Tom someone? The guy who Dom Jolly interviewed  |
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« Reply #50 on: October 03, 2008, 17:59:53 » |
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In one way I don't think it really matters who the Transport Secretary is, as whichever MP▸ with no transport background they choose will only be following orders. However, maybe the government will use a change of Minister as an opportunity to signal a change of direction.... they'll be thinking of a few popular measures to come up with before the next election, so I'm slightly hopeful that we might get some good news for the railways... although I'd be amazed if any new money that might be on offer reaches the westcountry.  |
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« Reply #51 on: October 03, 2008, 22:52:37 » |
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« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2008, 18:25:43 » |
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Is the other guy who represents a seat near Glasgow still under him looking after rail? Tom someone? The guy who Dom Jolly interviewed No, Tom is no longer at the DfT» : see http://www.tomharrismp.com/?PageId=b3a54196-096a-b954-8db8-3523bbd3b65e |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2008, 23:30:34 » |
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« Reply #54 on: October 06, 2008, 08:18:32 » |
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There's a notable difference between how the news of Ruth Kelly's departure and that of Tom Harris was handled and received at TravelWatch SouthWest / among the delegates there on Saturday. There was a far warmer feeling with Ruth Kelly who, after all, "fined" FGW▸ in such a way that the money went back into services and looked like she may have been set to be rather more pro-transport user than her predecessors) that with Tom Harris for whom few, if any tear are being shed in he South West.
And indeed as I drove home on Saturday evening (the train I would have caught back from the same meeting a couple of years ago having been withdrawn by the DfT» / FGW) the BBC» was talking about Tom Harris being sacked which struck me as an unusually exteme wording.
Looking forward ... is there a new name yet in place of TH? Perhaps the policies won't change very much, but I do look forward to a different hand at the tiller.
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« Reply #56 on: October 06, 2008, 20:55:41 » |
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Andrew Adonis was born in 1963 - born to a Greek Cypriot father and English Mother who left the familiy when he was a toddler. He live in a council children's home to 11, from where he progressed vi local education grant to school and on to Oxford University for BA» , D Phil, and a fellowship. From 1992 to 1996 he worder for the financial times, then moved on to the Observer.
From 1987 to 1992 he was an Oxford City Concillor for the Lim Dems, and he was selected as the party's parliamentary candidate for the Westbury constituency in 1994, from which he resigned 18 months later. He has never (from what I can see) stood at an election as a parliamentary candidate. In the 1990s he was politically active in Islington North. In May 2005 he was created a life peer which enabled him to be appointed as a government minister.
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« Reply #57 on: October 06, 2008, 20:58:23 » |
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I've visited that page. Do you know what the letters "mp" on the end of the URL stand for? |
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« Reply #58 on: October 06, 2008, 21:07:22 » |
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I presume its a "general" thing, based on the fact that the other DfT» ministers have "mp" at the end of their links, and are indeed MP▸ 's, unlike Andrew Adonis....
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« Reply #59 on: October 06, 2008, 21:13:40 » |
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Indeed, Lee - I, too, suspect that it's just a convention that the DfT» 's website urls all assume their ministers will be MPs▸ ? It all seems very political in motivation, though: see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7654337.stm |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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