IF YOU ever forget it, just remember: We’re All In This Together.
But Wantage MP Ed Vaizey, who is a Minister for the Digital Industries, has revealed he applied to put a games console in his room at the Culture Department.
“The powers that be were against it, because people coming for meetings would assume that I was spending every spare minute playing games”, he told Edge magazine.
Now Mr Vaizey has suggested there should be a gaming room in the Houses of Parliament in order to showcase the best of the British gaming industry to fellow MPs. The Insider cannot wait for the day a Government falls over a crucial vote because backbenchers are too busy playing Grand Theft Auto.
* HAS anyone fallen out in the fall-out from the St Clement’s planning application? With Oxford City Council set to lose £5m from the developer after the planning application was rejected by councillors, it’s not surprising that some of the Executive Board members tried to get the decision overturned.
Colin Cook, responsible for city development, led the way in trying to get 11 other councillors to call for a fresh planning application hearing.
He persuaded at least three board colleagues to agree, but in total just eight votes could be mustered in the failed attempt to call-in the application.
*EVERYBODY still gets their Milibands confused (The Insider’s favourite is Steve Miliband – his hit Abracadabra is a gem), but now there is confusion over the Camerons.
Proud dad David Cameron took his son to watch that famous West Oxfordshire team Aston Villa play QPR at Loftus Road on Sunday... but just what is the five-year-old’s name?
Until now, the little lad has always been identified as Arthur.
But now the Daily Telegraph, which surely must know its Tory heirs and their proper titles, has started calling him Elwen – his middle name.
No.10 needs to do some serious focus group work to see which name plays better with the electorate before he appears in a public photoshoot again.
*BARRISTERS flaunting themselves in budgie-smugglers? No, it’s not a scene cut at the last minute from Judge John Deed, but the disturbing image conjured up at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.
During the pre-trial hearing of a case involving alleged criminal activity in Britain and Ghana, prosecutor David Bright joked that the whole legal team from each side should have decamped to Africa for three weeks to collate evidence.
One defendant’s barrister informed the judge in mock disappointment: “I had already packed my Speedos.
”It’s not a pretty sight, your honour.”
*THE Insider sends our best wishes to David Walliams who, for Sport Relief, swam the length of the River Thames.
A fortnight since finishing, reports say he is confined to a hospital bed, unable to walk because of a back spasm. Get well soon, from all in Oxfordshire who came out to cheer you on.
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