After the forum last night I headed down to the Backbencher to check out my good friend and fellow Labour candidate Phil Twyford on Backbenchers  I think the show is getting better all the time.  It manages to be entertaining most weeks, and does put a different slant on politics.  I thought Phil did a great job last night, and it reinforced for me what a fantastic MP he will be in 9 days time. 

I even managed to make a brief appearance ( just before the first break), giving the correct answer to the question of how long it took for Winston to make up his mind after the 1996 election, and earning myself a US $1 bill!! Hopefully its not Charter money

On a different note, closer observers of the blog will note a slight change in tabs on right hand side of the page.  We have a section entitled ‘What Others Say’.  This is picking up some media and other quotes about me.  Inclusion in here of media quotes is not meant to imply any endorsement by the author, and hence we have changed the title of the section.  My apologies to Colin and Audrey for any suggestion  that their comments represented an endorsement.