Feb. 27th, 2008
This:

won’t surprise anyone who works in the building. While I don’t wish to encourage anyone else to have a punt at it, Parliament really is a hopelessly soft touch, which is rather unfortunate when the value of symbolically conquering the place is incalculable.
One thing, though: I keep hearing in press reports that this lot “found” a public lift to take them to the top of the building and then “discovered” a fire exit that took them out on to the roof. The place is like a bloody rabbit warren and the chances of simply stumbling across these useful features of the building are stick-thin. I merely wonder who it was who told them where they needed to go.

won’t surprise anyone who works in the building. While I don’t wish to encourage anyone else to have a punt at it, Parliament really is a hopelessly soft touch, which is rather unfortunate when the value of symbolically conquering the place is incalculable.
One thing, though: I keep hearing in press reports that this lot “found” a public lift to take them to the top of the building and then “discovered” a fire exit that took them out on to the roof. The place is like a bloody rabbit warren and the chances of simply stumbling across these useful features of the building are stick-thin. I merely wonder who it was who told them where they needed to go.
Another in a long list of memos to me: if the Minister’s statement is about super-casinos, it’s a safe bet that he’s not going to be talking about problem gabling.