Brian Catt

London

Consultant

"nor to act as an aide memoire by a member participating in proceedings". So its alright to read notes from paper but not from a PDA? Shows the tecnical grasp and relevance of the people in charge of 21st century Britain. Ignorant BS merchants, strong on words and personal benefits, low on substance. Politicians, then. Should you even give their ill considered outpourings the oxygen of publicity? At least you could point out the more stupid mistakes or hypocrisy. As long as information excahnged is relevant to a debate and doesn't disturb it why not use devices like PDAs? One of the things technology will do in this environment is to get information to individual MPs on the floor better and faster than the people in power - who use the mechanisms and resources of government to conceal the truth from us for their own advantage - and are massively supported with data in the chamber. Levelling the playing field to get truth and fact to the chamber is not something a Tony Blair or Humphrey will like...smacks of democracy. So we should support it.