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September 07, 2004
Holyrood in business!
Holyrood enjoyed a low key opening today with a low-key address by our First Minister. Linda Fabiani (SNP MSP), to her great credit, has said that she hopes Holyrood will inject “a bit of fun into politics” and energize the electorate. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3631816.stm
Great. However visitors must behave with due decorum. I don’t have the dress code here, but I do have a copy of the code of behaviour.
Interesting that laptops and recording equipment are not allowed. Maybe concerned citizens attending committee meeting have to take an old-fashioned shorthand secretary with them, use longhand, or rely on official transcriptions? Powerpoint presentations are out anyway. Are PDAs allowed? Maybe they forgot to add them to the list?
If you take a tour they are going to ask you to pay 3.50 on top of the 431,000,000 pounds you have already given them. Be magnanimous! Just wear a very large lapel button with the word SPONSOR on it.
[The public may visit on business days between 09.00 and 19.00 and on non-business days from 10.00 to 18.00 (April to October), 10.00 to 16.00 (November to March), and on weekends from 10.00 to 16.00. It’s closed on December 25/26 and January 1/2. Telephone number 0131 348 5000, email sp.info@scorrish.parliament.uk.]
Posted by Simon Holledge at September 7, 2004 09:11 PM