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March 7, 2008
The Department of Silly Ideas
The Times has an article about Mrs Mansion Polish banging her tin.
There is a comment
And it also carries this Leading Article in which it describes Mrs Mansion Polish as the Minister for Silly Ideas:
The funny thing about all this is that DLA - Delay- The Depatment of Libraries and Archives-- were circulating a long document last week about 'how to avoid bad press for public libraries' . Nowhere in the whole thing was the phrase "make them better' -- which you would have thought was what they were paid to do. Basically their idea was to tell everyone that journalists don't understand the subject.. !! oh yes - you have to laugh
When she made her comments about Hillingdon libraries last year in which she derisively said the effort to restore the service was reminiscent of the old fashioned smell of mansion polish, Maragret Hodge was trying to make a clever remark at the expense of those who were genuinely trying to make libraries work for the population in which they stand. It was a hurtful, destructive, snobbish and patronising thing to say. It did really upset the people who had gone through some difficulty to make the project work. She has done exactly the same about the proms and those who have worked so hard and professionally to make then successful. No person should do that to anyone else-- and ministers are not appointed to sneer at people who work hard for the public.. She should be sacked now.
Posted by Perkins at March 7, 2008 10:40 AM