For those of you who don't know, he's the UK Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries, and as such is responsible for supervising library services in England; you can read more about how badly he's failed to do this at the excellent Public Libraries News.
For those of you who do know - and that's all of you now, if you've read the preceding paragraph - I hope you enjoy this little home movie.
Please feel free to share it around. You'll find the embed code here if you'd like to screen it on your own blog or website.
John's website is at www.visitingauthor.com.
He's on twitter as @JohnDougherty8.
His latest books include:
Finn MacCool and the Giant's Causeway - a retelling for the Oxford Reading Tree
Bansi O'Hara and the Edges of Hallowe'en
Zeus Sorts It Out - "A sizzling comedy... a blast for 7+" , and one of The Times' Children's Books of 2011, as chosen by Amanda Craig
Big thanks - great stuff - have just embedded in Stroud Community TV's website: http://stroudcommunity.tv/whats-wrong-with-ed-vaizey-john-dougherty-on-libraries/
ReplyDeleteOh, that's excellent!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant John. Deserves to go viral!
ReplyDeleteWOOP!
ReplyDeleteShould be our Eurovision entry.
Superb, John!
ReplyDeleteThanks John! This is fab!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, 5 months later.....Ed Vaizey still has not replied to our open letter.
http://foclibrary.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/joint-open-letter-to-ed-vaizey-from-library-user-groups-please-consider-signing-and-circulating/
Rude! AND Lazy!
EXCELLANT
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your lovely comments! And, yes, WHY hasn't Ed Vaizey replied to Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries?
ReplyDeletebecause he thinks is he ignores us we will go away. We wont.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant, John! Thanks - will pass it on in Somerset...
ReplyDeleteWonderful stuff, John! I'll tweet it far and wide.
ReplyDeletePoor soul, probably set out to do his best, but like most of us, came unstuck.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right, Carole Anne - but my thinking is, it's more like that Groucho Marx line:
ReplyDelete"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them.... I have others!"
Fab! Deserves to be bigger than the Beatles...
ReplyDeleteTotally brilliant, John. Off to tweet & even crawl back on to FB for this. Deserves to go viral.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff John. Will pass it on!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff John. Will pass it on!
ReplyDeleteHeroic! And hopefully extremely provoking.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff! I love the way your guitar turns into an exe!
ReplyDeleteExcellent, John! Hope all the right people see it and pass it on to the man concerned.
ReplyDeleteEspecially love the "psychiatrist" and the shrinking people in the shirt - and, of course the message. Brilliant as ever!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
ReplyDeleteLove it! Nice work. :-)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant! How do we get Mariella Frostrup to adopt it as the theme for her Book Show?
ReplyDeleteFantastic. Should be aired on terrestrial TV, everywhere.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have contacts?
Absolutely fabulous - Thankyou John!
ReplyDeleteWonderful, John. Have put it on my Facebook page. Can I be in your backing group next time, please?
ReplyDeleteExcellent it really gets the message across. It would be great to see this on the news as a comment on the effectiveness of the government .
ReplyDeleteFantastic matey,used it yesterday and today as an intro to politics with years 5 and 6 !!!
ReplyDeleteGreat way of getting the message across. Catchy tune! I'm forwarding this link to friends.
ReplyDeleteJudging by a comment I heard at an Arts Council 'Imagining Libraries of the future' event last week, at least some chief librarians seem to have fallen for Vaisey's alleged 'passionate concern' for libraries. God help us.
ReplyDeleteThis is so ruddy fantastic!!!
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