Do We Really Want This Sort Of Person Advising Government?

[youngmafbog]

In the third knife attack in a week involving children, police say the boys who attempted the robbery were between 12 and 15.

Forget the fact she is liberal, question counts for all Political persuasions.

[Baldric]

Forget the fact she is liberal,
Ok, but who is she?

[youngmafbog]

Oops, sorry the cut and paste seems to have gone wrong.

!st paragraph belongs to post below and this link should be in there instead

http://news.sky.com/story/1199027/vicky-pryce-reinstated-as-govt-economics-adviser

Anyone know if there is a way to delete a post so it can be corrected?

[Baldric]

Ask the Ed or a mod.

[jake-the-peg]

Well we could ask this about Johnathan Aitkin too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Aitken#Political_comebacks

His conspiracy to pervert was more serious in that it directly pertained to his behaviour as a cabinet minister.

His subsequent advisory position was only just indirect in that he was working for Ian Duncan Smith.

I think government should be free to pick who they look to for advice but they do have to accept that if they select people with a quesionable background there will be questions that need answering.

Aitkin for example was a good source with respect to prison reform - what sort of advice on prison reform would a government get if it excluded anyone who'd ever been imprisoned?

[Gromit]

Your quest is, Should Vicky Price get her old job back?

Probably yes. Apparently she was good at it, and this Government is very thin on talent.
Her crime was a misjudgement in her personal life. Though that questions her honesty, I do not think that affects her ability to to and advisory job. She is not in a pisition to take Bribes, she just suggests things and the government can ignore her advise.

Not sure she is a Liberal. She is shacked up with an ex-Labour MP now.

[anotheoldgit]

Strange the Liberals they sack a member because he has not been found guilty of anything, and reinstate one that has.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Not sure she is a Liberal. She is shacked up with an ex-Labour MP
now. ///

Can't be any more liberal than that.

[Gromit]

Just clear up a few typos, bleedin iPhone.

I do not think that affects her ability to do an advisory job. She is not in a position to take Bribes, she just suggests things and the government can ignore her advice.

[Gromit]

AOG
Eh?

My point is that being married to a Liberal, or living with someone from Labour does not mean SHE is Liberal or Labour. Bercow's other half is not a Conservative.

[Gromit]

Vichy Price writes for the Daily Mail, so I suddenly gone off her :-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2420878/Why-buy-Lib-Dems-Mansion-Tax-Vicky-Pryce-gives-blistering-demolition-flagship-policy.html

She openly attacks LibDem Policy which adds to my doubts that she is a card carrying member.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

It was a play on words joke, don't you get it?

[Gromit]

No.