Hi, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:51:30 -0000, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > must have struck the organisers as a bad idea > > > why organise something at a time guaranteed to > > undermine that? > > I don't wish to theorise or run conspiracies up but this seems to be > exactly the point. To stop the whole process working properly.
Exactly. It's the norm to schedule contentious stuff at awkward times, e.g. just before parliament's about to break up for a recess and the MPs are largely already back home. 9/11 being a good day to bury bad news was just an extension of this old policy. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
