Tonight I am talking to Tom Harris who for some years now has been the Labour MP for Glasgow South and is standing for re-election on the 6th May. Tom is a well regarded blogger with a taste for the direct, sardonic and serious… as with my other podcasts in the 20 minutes with series… tonight is not about pushing policies but looking at the human side of politics.
We talk about twitter, the value of blogs in politics, rushing legislation through Parliament in ‘wash up’, Votes at 16, hung parliaments, why Tom Harris went into politics and his enthusiasm for the years ahead, the issue of whether Scots MPs should vote on purely Scots matters and even find time to discuss independence for Scotland – briefly. It is fair to say that the series title of 20 minutes should, as last night, be changed to be 30 minutes with….
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Other Podcasts in the “20 Minutes with series…”
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Old Holborn, Emily Nomates from GuyNews, Carl Gardner on The Queen’s Powers, Tom Williams to come this week and more next week and the week after…
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Sir,
Tom Harris may be a very well regarded blogger, I’m sure he is a very amiable man, but perhaps he should maybe hang up his biro for a wee while until the potholes are completely filled in on the M8 as promised.
Business does still come first, surely?
If need be I’ll lend him my shovel.
Also.. shall we ask him why there are so many good honest Glesga men unemployed and going to the wall while Albanian and Lithuanian men are being used as cheap labour in our city of late?
Maybe a wee swally with me of a night may find him motivated enough to ask the right questions in the hoose?
I’ll provide him with the real figures that his colleagues have suppressed from the general public over the years.
I may need that shovel after all.
cheerio,
JB
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[…] Hat Tip to @Pam_nAshes for alerting me to this. I like Tom Harris MP and his humour and directness on Twitter. Pity he gave up blogging. His blog was good. I had the very real pleasure of doing a podcast with Tom last year before the election. I enjoyed the podcast. If you didn’t listen – well worth a listen. […]