Monday, July 27, 2009

Lord Lester: My GOAT hell



a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaEq683ETqR_tNU1Irvv0iO0OV68nuwQgLhYxuqlXROT1_KKZuxMKxp-ktjnZSJs7dG0roYFz47VBT_WHNDL-leNBLLGp6bpaY4CRwYKMQvNEHiKJAzIgS-sJ-LbuU0pTM3WSnWNVpV19j/s1600-h/goat.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 154px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363256777906291090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaEq683ETqR_tNU1Irvv0iO0OV68nuwQgLhYxuqlXROT1_KKZuxMKxp-ktjnZSJs7dG0roYFz47VBT_WHNDL-leNBLLGp6bpaY4CRwYKMQvNEHiKJAzIgS-sJ-LbuU0pTM3WSnWNVpV19j/s200/goat.jpg" //aLib Dem peer a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/27/constitutional-reform-illiberal-reactionary-labour"Anthony Lester/a has an article in tomorrow's Guardian about his unhappy period as an adviser to Jack Straw:br /divblockquotepApart from being unpaid and independent, none of my conditions of appointment was met. I and my gifted team worked with a junior minister, Michael Wills, and a team of able and loyal civil servants. I saw Straw rarely to discuss policy. I was not given some key papers in sufficient time to have an input./ppI was never invited to attend a meeting across government departments, still less to attend a cabinet committee. My advice was received politely, but it was unacceptable to a conservative justice secretary preoccupied with the crisis in our prisons and tinkering with Lords reform./p/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-4856308982764256968?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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