Nick Harvey, Niagra............and why I'm a fan of Simon Hughes

I have just returned from a pre budget group meeting.............OK and a quick trip to the pub (also frequented by our Labour cousins - so took the opportunity for an indepth debate on Trident, unitary authorities and quangos)........to find I have a couple of comments on my blog.........weh hey.....!

The first was from the adorable Nick Harvey explaining why he didn't want a joint meeting on Trident at conference........but I am at a loss to understand why he has posted this on my post about Niagra......am I missing some deep political message here???! Anyway, if you want to know why you can go have a look.

The second was from "anonymous". Now I am always totally intrigued by "anonymous" he ...........or she...........but it must be a he coz we girlies don't really care who knows what we think about anything, and we don't have time to be on line 24/7 as anonymous clearly is.........leaves a delightful observation about my "Being 52"..........and my admitting I am known as "The Late Linda Jack"..........asking if this is why I am a Simon Hughes fan. He, or (unlikely) she.........is absolutely right! So maybe now is an appropriate time to reflect on why some of us tend to be not in the least bit early (unless........as on Sunday...being told by my all knowing family to arrive at a different time to everyone else, thus maximising the chances of arriving on time). The reason is two fold. Number one. We hate wasting time so we are always totally optimistic about how long it takes to get anywhere. What is the point of arriving half an hour early and twiddling your thumbs when you could be doing something useful and world altering?????! Number two. We love people, (well most of them) and we want to give them time, we don't like them to feel we are looking at our watches every 2 seconds, that they are important to us...........Number three (OK so maths is not our strong point) we are always totally over optimistic about how much we can fit in and so hate letting people down we find it almost impossible to say NO. And while we are on the subject of Simon Hughes, I have had a few comments bemoaning his disorganisation. Now......I am disorganised, I have always been disorganised, I wrote the book on disorganisation.........Simon is NOT disorganised! Disorganisation is an artform achieved by the very few.............if you don't believe me you are invited to visit my humble abode. If I have one mission in life it is to demonstrate that on the Richter Scale of Disorganisation..........I make Simon look like a 0.1. And anyway where is the evidence? Its like a mantra that everyone repeats without any evidence whatsoever, oh, Simon is disorganised, like, oh Tony Blair is honest, if we say it loudly and often enough maybe people will believe us?

Rant over. So Mr/s anonymous...............are you going to reveal yourself???