{"id":427,"date":"2007-08-05T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=427"},"modified":"2007-08-05T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:02:00","slug":"mobile-phone-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/mobile-phone-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article2195547.ece\">very interesting article<\/a> in The Times about PM Brown&#8217;s way of working.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while the rest of the Civil Service may just be stirring at 6.30am, the Prime Minister has been up for up to an hour [&#8230;] His weapon of choice is the mobile phone, which will ring from 6.30am, with the bright-eyed, perky Prime Minister demanding papers, discussing strategy and even asking for feedback. &#8220;You can literally hear the spoon going into the cornflakes as he\u2019s talking,&#8221; one member of the Government who has received the early call said. [&#8230;] &#8220;If you float an idea, he will ask you to write a policy paper on it and he\u2019ll keep phoning you until you\u2019ve written it. It\u2019s absolutely nonstop.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very interesting article in The Times about PM Brown&#8217;s way of working. And while the rest of the Civil Service may just be stirring at 6.30am, the Prime Minister has been up for up to an hour [&#8230;] His weapon of choice is the mobile phone, which will ring from 6.30am, with the bright-eyed, perky Prime Minister demanding papers, discussing strategy and even asking for feedback. &#8220;You can literally hear the spoon going into the cornflakes as he\u2019s talking,&#8221; one member of the Government who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}