... when the EAUC treats with the EDG on November 14th.
Although meeting the diminished Clegg may now be a turn-off rather than the turn-on he once was, don't worry because he may not even be there.
It's a proven, if rather discredited, process this. You send out personal invitations to a portentously titled seminar [The Future of Education for Sustainability in the UK], tell everyone that someone famous (e.g., Nick Clegg) has been invited as a keynote speaker, and include him in the programme. The invitation says ...
Although The [UN's] Future We Want document has not achieved what many of us hoped for, in some areas it is more articulate than expected. We are pleased that the document outlines a very strong support for education for sustainable development. Now [The Future We Want] has been endorsed by the United Nations, we are in the position to ask the UK government (and each other) to outline what supporting mechanisms will be put in place to facilitate this agenda and how we can further stimulate dialogue and collaboration between all stakeholders.
It goes on ...
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who was present at the Earth Summit, is invited to respond to the education agenda in [The Future We Want] at the event. We have also invited the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove to respond as he was consulted in the period leading up to the Summit. Further invitations have gone out to MPs of respective political parties, Times Higher Education and Guardian.
Not just Clegg, you see, but Gove too. What, I wonder, is the chance that either will participate in all this? I shalln't be going, largely because I'm not invited. Not significant enough, I'm told, by those who say they know. Hey! Sic gloria transit mundi.
Update 121018
I am recalled to life. My invitation dropped onto my desktop the other day; must have been delayed in the post! Sadly, it comes too late as I have already filled the unforgiving slot.
Update 121115
I am told that miracles did not happen, and that neither Clegg nor Gove materialised, but that David Heath, Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome, and currently the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food at Defra, did, staying around for an unusually long time for an MP. Good to see.
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