Some political humour
I was at a conference this week held in the House of Commons and entitled “Parliament And The Internet”. One of the speakers was Stephen Timms in his capacity as Minister for Digital Britain. He told us a delightful little story.
First Timms reminded his audience that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has been appointed by the Prime Minister to help the British Government to make its data more easily available online. Then Timms explained how he had taken Berners-Lee along to a meeting of the Cabinet to discuss the opening up of public data.
Veteran Cabinet member and Justice Minister Jack Straw exclaimed: “Meeting the inventor of the web is like meeting the inventor of the wheel.” The youthful Environment Minister Ed Miliband immediately quipped: “And how was that, Jack?”