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Apparently Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley works ‘four days a year at Profero‘, ‘a marketing agency that helps to mount Government health campaigns.’

Moving swiftly over the loyalties and ethics of a man who belongs to one political party while working for a firm that enacts its opponent’s polices, it’s the ‘fours days a year’ that gets me intrigued.

Just what good can you do in just four days? I wonder if he isn’t the guy who goes from desk to desk in the office cleaning the crud out of everyone’s mouse. That would be a health campaign worth getting behind.

Meanwhile, in a display of the shocking lack of self-awareness common in many New Labour MPs, Richard Caborn had this to say…

Cameron doesn’t have the authority to tell his Shadow Cabinet part-timers to stop their outside interests. The public want confidence that Cameron’s team are not speaking for some vested interest.

…New Labour, of course, never having touched a vested interest ever, ever, ever, even with a twenty foot pole, honest.

(Via Councillor Bob)