New housing minister Mark Prisk is ‘a modest man’, unlike his ebullient predecessor Grant Shapps, who ‘gave hubris a bad name’.
Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey delivered the verdicts in a House of Commons debate on housing (see next story).
Dromey also accused Shapps of having spent too much time on Twitter.
He said that Shapps wasn’t building houses so much as building a following on the social networking site with a “dedication and passion that many would find hard to understand”.
He told Prisk that he hoped he “will spend his time dedicating his full attention to the job. I [also] advise him not to be obsessed with sending out press statements, as his predecessor was”.
He said: “If there were a new home for every press release from the last minister for housing, there would be no housing crisis.”
Prisk said of his ‘modesty’ that it was said that if a politician was modest, it was because they had a lot to be modest about. But he went on: “I hope to be able to match my predecessor’s energy.”
So, do you think that Shapps was all hot air and tweeting as a housing minister? And how would you advise Prisk to do better?
More crucially, perhaps, in view of the coalition’s current unpopularity with voters, could Dromey – who comes from the party that gave us HIPs – ever come up with the housing market goods?
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Whether Shapps spent too much time on twitter is neither here nor there - the point is he had an opportunity to create credibility when asked questions, and failed miserably - as proved here http://www.ipinglobal.com/ipin-live/406510/holy-housing-shapps-man-it-should-be-possible
Ken, I think you need to open your eyes.
Here's another clue, they never have or will be working in your interest regardless of whether they're behind closed doors.
Whose interests is a politician working in when he's not accountable to the public? Clue - not yours.
It's dangerous to get the public involved in important decisions. They are far too stupid to understand what is required. They would just end up voting for the dancing dog!
You want politics to go on behind closed doors? Very communist.
No its not, because they're not going to tell you the truth anyway, its all political BS.
Personally, I would much rather someone get on with their actual job rather than spending all day replying to idiots on twitter and worrying about how many followers they have, trying to appeal to the "younger generatiop".
Politicians, get the f*@k off twitter and do your job.
Isn't politicians telling us what they're doing and how they're spending our money a good thing?