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One of the stories we said we'd be looking at this week was the issue of politicians and the internet.
We've just recorded a discussion between Lynne Featherstone, the blogging Liberal Democrat MP, and Phil Hendren, who blogs as "Dizzy Thinks".
You can hear the full version of their conversation with Eddie Mair here:
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LYNNE FEATHERSTONE fails to realise that any politician who is TRULY one of us - the democratically disenfranchised - would not stop at the odd piece of "judicious candour" on her blog, but take on the multifarious iniquities of Parliament and party politics OF WHICH THERE ARE MANY (perhaps starting with the MPs code - qv). When I stood for Parliament in 2005 (Newbury) under "SPOIL PARTY GAMES" I was often asked what I would do if I got elected - although it was never going to happen. I always replied: (1) I would give the Chamber a maiden speech it would not forget (2) I would continue to challenge iniquities and be thrown out, thereby bringing this charade into the media spolight.
THAT is what Lynne Featherstone would be doing, were she truly one of us rather than one of them.
Perhaps I should point out that JUDICIOUS CANDOUR is exactly the sort of thing that typifies THEM!