http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/02/04/1400 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/02/04/1400#comment-2749 katie Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:10:28 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/02/04/1400#comment-2749 In 1990 my economics teacher wrote to The Times airing his views on entry into the ERM. He believed that we shouldn't join, which a lot of people also thought, but of course, us the public who end up paying for the mess the government get us into, are never listened to. Imagine if we had been lisened to all the money we could have saved. But why change the habbit of a lifetime and listen to the people who might actually know something. In 1990 my economics teacher wrote to The Times airing his views on entry into the ERM. He believed that we shouldn’t join, which a lot of people also thought, but of course, us the public who end up paying for the mess the government get us into, are never listened to. Imagine if we had been lisened to all the money we could have saved. But why change the habbit of a lifetime and listen to the people who might actually know something.

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