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Story: Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Posted by: Aaron Trevena (Friday 24 June 2005, 9:39 AM)
Apparently the Liberal Democrats do have some IT related policies, they just don't know about them or choose to ignore them.
Looking through the policies on the page provided and through any archive of parliament questions you will see that no Liberal Democrat has asked any questions of any minister about anything in these policies.
These policies also don't appear on any official party website or even the affiliated Liberal Democrats Scientists and Engineers Association.
On contacting Norman Lamb who is presumbably the shadow minister in charge of this shambles, you wait 2 days for an acknowledgement from one of his assistants before he writes to you by post, presumbably second class, written using quill and ink. I wouldn't be surprised if some Liberal Democrat (and labour/tory) MPs would rather they still wore tights and ruffles in parliament given their aversion to any late 20th century technology (apart from certain over-zealous home secretaries, who should be banned from talking about IT until they have a basic grasp of it).
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