According to the article the pensions minister and Stalybridge and Hyde MP James Purnell and health minister and Leigh MP Andy Burnham both declined their tickets straight away because, shock horror, they had work to do.
He has enough trouble doing BOTH HIS JOBS properly (thats why he only replied to somewhere between 65% and 85% of his constituents letters within a fortnight) without going to Germany, even if it is a charity match.
Why shouldn't Thomas have fair representation - there is nothing wrong with what he said. The truth is John is bitter that he hasn't been asked to open the festival and he is giving a middle finger to the organising committee and Keith Bradley who work so hard for this excellent local event - to say his parliamentary trip had been arranged before the football is just a plain lie (but then that is nothing new coming from John)
