At home with the Editor: April 2010 Archives

Our assocaition masters have spent, possibly, millions of pounds trying to get optics into the limelight. they've set up Health hotels, employed lobbyists, set up levies for support funds, created DVDs to get you MP onboard.

And then it happened. On a TV programme with possibly the biggest audience seen since the Queen's coronations there is a dispensing optician, jacqueline Salmon with her lips at the microphone.

Sadly for optics she lives in Burnley and simply wanted to know what could be done about all of the burglaries in the area.

It's probably all those Clarets fans distraught at being kicked out of the first division (or the McDonald challenge cup, whatever it's called these days) .

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Mrs Optician Editor is a little put out today. We were supposed to be enjoying a seat in the audience at the BBC's question Time in Woking tonight. The nice man from the Beeb had phoned over the weekend and just needed to confirm.

The announcement of the general election seemed to have changed the rules somewhat. Despite filling out a comprehensive questionnaire and getting the nod over the weekend by Tuesday we suddenly had to be Labour stalwarts to get on the show. Being a floater wasn't what they wanted.

It is interesting that it is assumed that anyone who won't guarantee they will vote Labour are assumed to have moved to the right. I don't see a lot of Socialism in  New Labour presumably the BBC thinks Gordon brown is as far left as politics goes.

Either way it doesn't say a lot for political debate.