Industry pundit Christian Wolmar has offered his thoughts on the appointment of Geoff Hoon as Secretary of State for Transport.
Wolmar asks: "I wonder how many people in the street would be able to name him from a photograph - probably fewer than 5 per cent".
He then goes on deliver the following damning judgement:
"I think it was the way in which he seemed to send troops into Iraq to be killed when he was defence secretary that got my goat the most. He seemed - or conveyed the impression - not really to care or be aware of the import of what he was doing. Certainly he was not going to take responsibility for it."
As a service to the industry and to help with recognition of Gende Homo in the street The Fact Compiler offers the following clip from You Tube:
The man has no shame - he should get on well with Dr "Death" Mitchell at the DfT.
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