Ask Tony and win II
The Prime Minister is having another of his little webchats answering question submitted by the Great Unwashed and posed on our behalf by journalists Anne McElvoy and Will Hutton.
Questions should be addressed to questions@pmo.gov.uk and the event will be broadcast live on the Number 10 website at 2pm on Thursday.
The last time he had one, I ran a little competition offering a prize for any one managing to have their question asked (if not necessarily answered). In the event, it was me who had his question asked (if not necessarily answered).
So, let’s do the same again. If anybody manages to have a question directed to the Prime Minister on Thursday, I will send them a small prize.
Update: Watch the webcast here. No winners, I think.
On a first viewing, Blair’s apologia for ID cards in particular struck me as a load of old cobblers and worthy of further scrutiny. Maybe later.
Posted on November 15th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
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“It was I“.
just emailed:
Do you think you have the moral authority to lecture both Iran and Syria when you yourself supported a war on Iraq that was based upon bad intelligence and lacked any proper plan to deal with Iraq post invasion?
I’m trying a different tactic this time. Quarsan over at Blairwatch has proposed sending this question:
In the Queen’s Speech I noticed that you intended to introduce legislation to “Making it a criminal offence to view images of rape and sexual torture” with a penalty of three years imprisonment.”
Would this apply to viewing images of the torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison?
So maybe if that question gets asked enough times perhaps he’ll address it.
Might not be the best formulation, but, frankly, I’m thinking more just now about phrasing a letter to Private Eye in the hope of getting a photo of Andrew Neil. I understand there may be one in their archive, and I’m sure I have more chance of a meaningful response… Still, I digress:
“Prime Minister, at the 1995 Labour Party conference you said yourself that a compulsory ID card scheme would waste ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’. Your proposed scheme is far more expensive, at an estimated £18 billion, and far more intrusive, with the National Identity Register seeking almost fifty items of information about each one of us. In the light of repeated government IT fiascos, why should we believe that your scheme will either work or be value for money?”