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Mr G Brown

Mark Devenport|15:20 UK time, Monday, 25 June 2007

When I arrived at Stormont this morning one of the notices on the video screen in the Great Hall caught my eye. there amongst the list of school groups visiting, it said "13:00 Mr G Brown - Private Tour". I quickly scanned the security staff to detect any heightened state of alert. But 13:00 came and went with no helicopters on the lawn. So either Mr G Brown is more discreet than his predecessor, or it was a different Mr G Brown. My money is on the latter.

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Fat chance it was Grinning Gordon. He doesn't even want members of his own party coming over here.

He's probably been to Basra and Baghdad more often than Belfast in the past year, and I can't see that changing.

  • 2.
  • At 06:04 PM on 25 Jun 2007,
  • Ciaran Logue wrote:

He might have popped over to ask the double jobbing MLAs/MPs at Stormont if they fancied being the Secretary of State.
Technically he could do that. Mercifully, he won't.

  • 3.
  • At 09:33 PM on 25 Jun 2007,
  • Pandora wrote:

Mark: Perhaps one or two mischievous MLAs were attempting a wind up - knowing your reputation for not missing a trick!

  • 4.
  • At 11:17 PM on 25 Jun 2007,
  • Peter Wilson wrote:

Mark you're going to have to invest in a camera of some description for these types of posts.

  • 5.
  • At 05:41 PM on 03 Jul 2007,
  • jim hannigan wrote:

i am very glad that the 6 counties is
at last a place that anyone can visit without being blown up well done to everyone

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