Comments on: No Minister – you don’t “listen” by leaving your own lunch

By: Mobile World Congress 2009 - the mobile industry talks mHealth… « 3G Doctor Blog

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:45:08 +0000

[...] A week in Barcelona isn’t without some fun and the moment for me came at the Mobile Monday London/UK Trade & Invest lunch (a big thanks to Helen Keegan for the invitation) held in the beautiful Palau Nacional MontJuic when TechCrunch UK Editor Mike Butcher asked an audience question to the speaker Lord Davies of Abersoch, UK Minister of State for Trade & Investment who had only moments before in his speech said he was “here to listen to the industry”. The organizers had to tell Mike that unfortunately the Minister had already left… that’s right h… [...]

By: Chris - LG Blog

Chris - LG Blog — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:10 +0000

This could be a scene straight from ‘The Thick Of It’

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459159/

By: Dan Williams

Dan Williams — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:44:34 +0000

This reminds me of a sketch from the ‘Thick of it’ where the minister makes his excuses to leave early from the tour of a factory.

By: Max Niederhofer

Max Niederhofer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:50:17 +0000

““the global downturn shows we are in an international global economy”

This isn’t necessarily a truism but an allusion to decoupling, which was all the rage until it was spectacularly falsified:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling#Decoupling_and_the_stock_market_declines_of_January_2008

By: GDI

GDI — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:18:12 +0000

Hi tech mobile minister…

By: Paul Walsh

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:08:19 +0000

I’m not happy with their response as it demonstrates that they’re shipping him around to ‘show face’, rather than adding value. This is sad to see when people like Mark O’Neill and Tom Watson try to hard to change the perception that Ministers and MPs etc. are… well, we all know what they are.

By: Simon Deane-Johns

Simon Deane-Johns — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:44:59 +0000

What a phoney (terrible pun, I know)

By: Jake Brumby

Jake Brumby — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:10:15 +0000

At least he is “quite keen to learn about the industry”.

By: Flemming

Flemming — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:18:40 +0000

This is top-notch journalism: shining the light on the mismatch between words and action.

Well done!

By: Chris Dymond

Chris Dymond — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:05:49 +0000

“If there’s a question you want to put…” !?

Fail.

By: Jon Knox

Jon Knox — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:37:22 +0000

mobile minister

By: Peter C

Peter C — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:09:47 +0000

fantastic post.