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Originally Posted by Skybird

Gnnnnnaaaaaa - For the third time now - this thread has nothing to do with Star Trek. Both Pic(c)ards are two very different persons!!!!!

But just for curiosity, what has Miliband to do with Patrick Stewart?

Miliband is my home town MP (as well as the UK Foreign Secretary) and every year he sponsors a famous/well known personality to visit his constituency (in what has become known as The South Shields Lecture....link below) to deliver a speech on a topic of their choosing.

http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/ev...k_Stewart.html

It's become a bit of a circus IMO, but I'm invited because of my position within our local community and because Miliband is a friend of mine.

Last year it was Tony Blair and the year before, Ken Livingstone.

I believe the theme Patrick has chosen is a one of praise for the NHS.....his life was once saved by them when he needed a blood transfusion in an emergency as a result of an accident.