...well, briefly and involuntarily. There's a Land Value Tax and Transportation policy fringe at the Labour conference tonight hosted by the Professional Land Reform Group of which I am a member, or at least I think I am - they might not think so as I've never had my subscription acknowledged (you know the kind of organisation - we have lots of them in the party!).

Amongst the speakers were to have been Vince Cable and Steve Norris, but Vince cancelled at short notice today, so I was asked to step in. How ironic it would have been me trying to belt up the only toll motorway in the country to get to a panel discussion about transport policy and land tax (especially since I was at school with one of the farmers who must have made a mint out of the toll road as well!).

But alas, what we thought was on at 8pm turns out to be 6.30pm, and without some form of ballistic transport I don't think I could have made that. So the excellent Peter Reilly from ALTER is going to go instead. But it was kind of nice to be asked to step in for Vince...:)

Oh well, maybe next time. I'm not so sure I would have been the best advocate for our new tax policies anyway!

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