In message , at 17:58:57 on Wed, 13
Apr 2016, Robin9 remarked:
"I tried as a minister at the last minute to unpick this,
but it was too late."

His last minute as a minister was in 2010. Why has he waited
six years?-


He wasn't wearing the hat of "Chairman of the Infrastructure Commission"


until very recently.

True, but in the interim period he wasn't hiding his light
under a bushel. He was forever popping up on radio programmes,
posing as the font of all wisdom on public transport matters.
I don't watch television but I imagine he had a pulpit there too.


This business of ex-ministers playing Hamlet's Ghost can only be taken
so far. In this case perhaps something so specific was wiser to leave
until he had a relevant official part to the play.

--
Roland Perry