There can be very few jobs in the world where you are appointed with little to no experience of the industry in which you work.
There can be very few people in the world who, when appointed to a job for which they have little to no experience of the industry, don't then set about gaining some insight into that industry.
Step forward and give us a wave then, Keith Brown. Scotland's Transport Minister has, in the last year, shunned public transport. He has only taken four train journeys in 12 months, compared to using the ministerial limo 226 times. How on earth is he supposed to know what he's talking about when discussing the rail network when he barely sets foot on it?
And his excuse?
“Personally, my car acts as a mobile office, allowing me to catch up on work in between engagements in a way I wouldn’t be able to using other means of transport.”
Perhaps if he'd taken the train more often, he would have realised that you can work on a train too. And there's more elbow room. Hey, you even get a table to rest your ministerial elbows on. And lots of light so that you can read in the dark, winter mornings and evenings without blinding the chauffeur.
It really is a pathetic excuse. Scotland deserves a Transport Minister that actually uses transport.
1 comments:
What a cracking excuse. Most people at my work choose the train over the car exactly because they CAN work on the train and not in the car. But then I guess they don't have a chauffeur...
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