Tom Harris's replacement is Lord Adonis

Does Lord Adonis know anything about railways? I honestly have no idea.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

"David Buttery" <rabbiteer@> wrote in message
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> Does Lord Adonis know anything about railways? I honestly have no idea.
>
> --
> Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

Damn. Posted mine and this came up.

I posted elsewhere:

"Evening all.

The arrival of Mr Noon and the departure of Mr Harris are covered elsewhere,
but who is now responsible for what?

The DfT site has GH as Sec of State, but still shows Rosie Winterton and Tom
Harris (!). Nothing on 10 Downing Street site either.Auntie says that "Lord
Adonis, who championed city academies, moves from the schools department to
become minister of state at transport".

Thanks

Patrick"

David Buttery wrote:
> Does Lord Adonis know anything about railways? I honestly have no idea.
>

Apparently he was involved in plotting the downfall of
Railtrack...

Charlie

In message <4p8ie4hfd4s5oq9f0ivpiujmsjbd71umjo@news.markshous e.net>, at
21:30:38 on Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> remarked:
>> And when he is a minster, he cannot
>>be questioned on the floor the House of Commons, or
>>engage in debate with our elected representatives.
>
>No, but he can be questioned in the Lords, which is often far more
>effective given that members there are not subject to the party whip
>and can therefore ask more awkward questions.

And then there are the cross-benchers, who are even more
independently-minded. And don't forget the select committees, where in
fact most of the "difficult" questions get asked.
--
Roland Perry

On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:27:59 -0500, David Buttery wrote:

> Does Lord Adonis know anything about railways? I honestly have no idea.

To be fair to him, he also knew nothing about education, and it showed.

From his record at Education he seems to be in favour of bringing the
private sector into everything.

From my admittedly limited observations over the last few days,
Britain would seem not to have a Private Sector anymore.

Will this stop him?

On 6 Oct, 10:56, Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:27:59 -0500, David Buttery wrote:
> > Does Lord Adonis know anything about railways? I honestly have no idea.
>
> To be fair to him, he also knew nothing about education, and it showed.

Funny, my next door neighbour, head teacher of a local comp., said
precisely the opposite. He cannot be worse than Harris.