Constituency Friday
Every week when Parliament is sitting, I spend my Friday in the constituency. It’s always a packed programme, and this is what I did yesterday. I visited Lombard Medical Technology, another world-beating company based in Didcot. I can’t give financial advice but this seems a company worth backing. They make stents, which allow surgeons to effectively shore up the aorta to avoid an aneurism bursting. They take an hour to fit, instead of the seven hours of open heart surgery common at the moment, and the patient recovers in 48 hours rather than 6 months. This company will one day be huge, and it is all starting in Didcot. Then off to the Didcot Community lunch, to hear Emma Dolman, the manager of our new £7 million arts centre, tell us about the exciting programme she has put together. The to the Age Concern AGM, to take questions with Evan Harris and Andrew Smith. Back for my surgery in Wantage, with at least ten cases, then on to Wallingford for a meeting with Churches Together, to discuss trade justice. The owner of the Wallingford Tea and Coffee company, Stephen Kitching, gave a wonderfully subversive talk, pointing out that the local diocese won’t stock his coffee or tea, because they will only take Fair Trade coffee or tea. Stephen points out that all his tea and coffee is ethically traded, but the Church won’t budge. Even God has now got bureucracy…
Sue said on October 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm:
Thanks for sharing your day with us