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congrats to voices for passing on a gem - matthew norman's email is: matthew.norman@guardian.co.uk ---------- >From: "Voices uk" <voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk> >To: <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> >Subject: another opportunity ! >Date: Thu, Dec 7, 2000, 7:18 pm > > Another opportunity to put your anti-sanctions questions to Tony Blair ! > > Mr Blair will be answering your questions, live, on ITV at 7pm on Tuesday > December 12th. You can e-mail your questions to myquestion@askthepm.co.uk . > I've no idea what sort of length questions they'll allow. > > Don't forget, if you haven't already done so, to e-mail an anti-sanctions > question to the PM at yourquestions@independent.co.uk (for this one, > restrict you probably want to restrict your questions to 23 words maximum). > > Finally, here's a snippet from today's Guardian. > > Best wishes, > > Gabriel. > > The Guardian > Diary > Matthew Norman > Thursday December 7, 2000 > > • And so to the full list of runners and riders for the Diary's Turncoat of > Turncoats competition, which runs from now until Mr Tony calls the election. > Please select whoever you think most deserves our special garment ... a red > coat with 30 yellow circles on it to represent pieces of silver, which then > turns inside and becomes a bright yellow coat with 30 red rectangles > representing red boxes. A fee of £250 (plus materials) is on offer to anyone > willing to make it. Please apply in the normal manner. > But who will win the coat? Diary pundit Steptoe will soon provide first show > of betting, but here are eight of the runners in alphabetical order: Paul > Boateng, Robin Cook, Peter Hain (see below), Margaret Hodge, Lord Macdonald, > Alan Milburn, John Prescott and Clare Bomber Short. There is room for four > more, should anyone have a nomination, and in the weeks ahead we will run > sketches of all contenders to assist anyone yet to make up their mind. > Turncoats - good luck to you all. > > • An ante-post favourite helped his chances yesterday with a letter to the > Guardian. Peter Hain's response to our item about the FO delaying a > humanitarian aid plane to Iraq for three days in Morocco was tremendous. My > claim that the FO "blocked" the flight was untrue, Peter insists, when in > fact all it did was "place the flight on hold ..." An intriguing semantic > distinction indeed. Well done, Peter! > > • We must, however, correct a couple of points. Peter mentions being falsely > accused of blocking (or placing on hold) one "humanitarian flight" organised > by George Galloway, and placing on hold (or perhaps blocking) another George > was on "from Bulgaria last month". In fact the original flight was not > humanitarian, containing only anti-sanctions journalists and activists, and > George cancelled it after Peter continually blocked or placed its departure > on hold. > > As for the one "from Bulgaria", one can see why Peter the Sanctions King > would rather not admit this but in fact it was from England: it took off > from Maidstone, merely stopping briefly in Plovdiv for refuelling. We can > all creep and crawl towards Mr T's post-election cabinet, Peter, but we must > keep at least one eye on those facts. > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq > For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk > Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: > http://www.casi.org.uk > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk