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Farewell, then, Minister for the People page The cruellest defenestration of the reshuffle was Tom Harris, the sunny-side-up Transport Minister who added to the gaiety of these pages. It was the Glasgow South MP who chided voters for being “bloody miserable”, defended McDonald’s cuisine and alerted us to a hilarious YouTube video of “a dog coming down a waterslide”. Admittedly, this may have contributed to the PM’s decision to axe Harris, which the former minister bravely blogged as “a shock to the system” five minutes after the Downing Street call. Now that Harris is off the leash he is telling voters that he used the train only because he could watch DVDs and “there’s no point in appealing to people’s concern for the environment” when choosing between rail and air travel. Harris’s departure was perhaps not such a shock to... [read full story]
