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PM set for county holiday?
Tuesday 28th July 2009, 12:30PM BST.
The Prime Minister could be paying a visit to Shropshire after he met a county volunteer.
Mary White, who has volunteered with Shropshire Wildlife Trust in Shrewsbury for 18 years, was invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street where she met Gordon Brown as well as Hilary Benn, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary.
Mrs White showed Mr Brown a copy of Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s magazine during the event, which was held in the garden of Number 10 to celebrate volunteering.
“He looked at the magazine and said ‘That looks like a really lovely county. I think I might take a holiday in Shropshire’,” she said.
- What should Gordon Brown see/do on his Shropshire holiday? Tell us in the comment box below
Mrs White, 78, from Bayston Hill, said she had enjoyed meeting Mr Brown and attending the reception with about 150 people from different environmental groups from all around England. Mrs White said she thought she had been chosen by the trust to make the trip because of the work she had done developing the trust’s garden at their Abbey Foregate headquarters.
“It was my first visit to Downing Street and it was very exciting,” she said. “I got my photo on the doorstep of Downing Street with Hilary Benn who was walking past.
“He had a big part to play in stopping badger culling in England.”
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‘That looks like a really lovely county’ makes it sound as though the PM has never been to Shropshire.
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comments slagging off our Prime Minister start in 5…4…3…2….1….
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Keep away.
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What this man has gone through, I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I hate his politics and the way he goes about them but what he does is not all “villanous). He deserves a long holiday. Get a good guide book on the County, find yourself a little quiet out of the way place and let your hair down and ENJOY YOURSELVES.
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Yes, I know, it was the wrong finger with “villainous”.
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For God’s sake, NO! Don’t let him near us – he’s jinxed, we’ll all be doomed!
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Our politicians really can’t win. Regardless of what you think of his politics, like all Prime Ministers he must have an enormously stressful life – so he, and his family, will need a holiday.
If he jetted off abroad he’d be castigated for being unpatriotic, not supporting the British tourist industry, not being puritanically ‘Green’ etc. etc.
Good luck to him if he wants to come to Shropshire – he could do a lot worse. If he does come here, I hope he’s made welcome.
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“What should Gordon Brown see/do on his Shropshire holiday?”
He could try sitting down and writing a heart-felt apology to the working people of this country.
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He might as well wait until after spring next year to take his hols, lets face it he’ll have plenty of time on his hands after then!
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He is a Scot, what little I have seen of that place, most of it puts Shropshire in the shade, we should be thankful (if he comes) for putting this part of the country on the map. The other thing is, at least he is patriotic and set’s a good example. Had this been Blair, it would have been a “freebie” in Cliff Richard’s place in Portugal or the West Indies, or another “freebie” in Silvio Berluscone’s Gin Palace in Sicily or with his mates in Israel. Give the man a chance, as far as we know Brown has not cottoned onto the free gravy train like Blair did – and does.
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