Common Endeavour » Douglas Alexander http://commonendeavour.org In Place Of Fear Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha en hourly 1 The Elevator Pitch: Paul Burgin http://commonendeavour.org/2009/05/08/the-elevator-pitch-paul-burgin/ http://commonendeavour.org/2009/05/08/the-elevator-pitch-paul-burgin/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 14:00:51 +0000 Sadie Smith http://commonendeavour.org/?p=995 Welcome to the Elevator Pitch, where we give a Labour blogger two minutes in an elevator with a Minister or Cabinet Minister of their choice and instructions to keep it in line with the Queensbury Rules. This week Mars Hill's Paul Burgin takes Douglas Alexander on over the "Education for All" initiative.

Paul Burgin is the moderator of Mars Hill and is, amongst other things, a volunteer press officer for the North East Hertfordshire CLP and training for the lay ministry in the Methodist Church. The blog post he is most porud of is the one where he demanded Pater Hain's resignation because of the interest it generated and because he says he tried to be balanced about it. Another favourite is his post on women bishops.

Paul [to International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander]: What are we doing right now with regard to the campaign for "Education for All" by 2015, how are we going about it with regards to the Fast Track Initiative, and what are the contingency plans? Given some of the ttething problems, would it not be better to take advice from the World Economic Forum and for the next Budget to put more money into helping the Fast Track Initiative?

]]> http://commonendeavour.org/2009/05/08/the-elevator-pitch-paul-burgin/feed/ 0