I recieved a phone call a couple of days ago at work from Veronica Belcher inviting me to attend a meeting with Ed Miliband Energy and Climate Change Minister at the National Energy Centre on Davy Avenue, Knowlhill for 3:45pm for a 4:00pm start.
I arranged with my work colleague Tracy Peters to leave the office early I was running late as I had to get the agenda and supporting papers out for the Annual Meeting and had still not finished but I was not worried as these meetings never start on time, as it proved to be.
I managed to find the Centre ok but the parking was dreadful and had to park quite away behind as it turned out behind Veronica's car, it was a showery day but managed to miss it walking to the centre.
I was welcomed in and offered tea or coffee and luckily there was nibbles on various tables as I was very hungray.
It was very crowded and spotted Victoria Whalley with her son and daughter and stood next to her for a chat but was in front of the toilets and had to keep moving out the way.
I also saw Pete Marland, Veronica Belcher, Dr Phyllis Starkey, Andrew Pakes, Brian White (who is Chair of the National Energy Centre), Cllr Janet Richardson, John Pinkerton and various attractive young ladies sporting Labour rosettes.
We were called in and took our seats I sat next to Pete's partner Ellie who had told me she had driven all the way from work in Northampton to attend.
A guy called Brian from the Energy Centre was chairing the event and told us that Ed Miliband was stuck in traffic (it would appear that he was travelling from Oxford after coming from Swindon), and would be quarter of an hour late so Dr Phyllis Starkey and Andrew Pakes were asked to fill in and make a short speech and answer questions from the floor.
The questions were very technical as members of the energy world were also invited to attend and they used a lot of jargon so it went very much over my head.
It what seemed an eternity Ed Milliband eventually arrived (and kissed Phyllis on both cheeks) with Franny Armstrong from a group called the Age of Stupid which I believe is encouraging ministers and members of the public to pledge to cut their carbon emissions on their website by ten per cent she had been following Ed Miliband at the two other meetings and was also asking him questions.
She looked very hippy in appearance and spoke really fast and just plonked herself on the desk feet and all and every now and then butted in with questions to Ed.
There was an awful racket and was informed that that was the roof windows closing as it started raining.
One questioner was from Domino's Pizza and Ed said he was hungray and could to with a pizza and mentioned it again later!
Another questioner was from Buildings Magazine who was seated near to me.
The whole event we were told later was being shown live on the Labour Party and Guardian websites.
I left the building and spoke briefly to Cllr Janet Richardson and went to my car and drove back to the office and finish colating my Annual Meeting papers and finish outstanding bits and pieces as I had booked the next week off for the election campaign.
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