"He arranged it all for us, and now it is up to us whether we will carry it out or not, " he said.
He has applied the brake, he has swung the wheel to the side, he has offered up a silent prayer, but it is too soon to see whether he has done these things in time.
Co-founder Graham Dodge says it is early days and the site will become more useful as more people sign up to it - but he insists it is not just about allowing people to avoid catching illnesses.
Is he just going to be a bystander and sort of a cheerleader, or is he going to be up to his elbows in it?
What is striking about where he ends up, as I understand it, is that he will encourage businesses to wean themselves off their addiction to bank finance and do more to help themselves.
Implicitly, he suggests that it is up to Europe to check the decline of the West.
If the only way he can force you to give 'em up is through scorn and ridicule, he's more than willing to do it, even as he claims the moral high ground.
But he says he intends to put it back on when the matter is cleared up.
He was drawn to this coastal area as it is near where he grew up and one that brings back many fond memories of playing on the beach.
That is going to make it hard for a start-up CEO to persuade a venture capitalist that he is going to get in on the next big thing.
"One of the great strengths of our manifesto process is the fact that our members both in Parliament and outside can get very involved in drawing it up, " he says, although he stresses it is down to Mr Clegg, as the party leader, to set the overall policy direction.
Magee is training with Dunne in the run-up to their respective bouts and he believes that it is helping both of them.
He said: "It is now up to the Manchester authorities to make the most of this opportunity, and to come forward with proposals that will deliver the transport improvements that these areas need".
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But he sometimes feels isolated and it is a strain - his eyes well up as he talks to me.
When the junkyard's lease is up next year he can decide whether to renew it at a higher rent or to sell the land to a developer.
He also says it is helping to free up the energy market, bringing new providers in who are challenging the dominance of the two big Belgian energy firms.
To his dismay, he discovers that it is not only Republicans but Democrats too who are cosying up to big business.
He is not in it for himself and firmly believes he is called by a higher power to stand up for the little guy.
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Tevita Leo-Latu's early second-half against the side he is to join next season then livened it up, the Reds responding through winger Steve Tyrer.
So Mr Bush needs to change the dynamic of the campaign, and the real trouble is that he cannot make up his mind how to do it.
At every turn he has demagogued the Romney-Ryan proposals to modernize the entitlement state so it is affordable, and he personally blew up the "grand bargain" House Speaker John Boehner was willing to strike last summer.
But in a part of the world where talking about threats is enough to get you killed, it's no surprise he is shy when the subject comes up.
If you equate "greatness" with sheer originality, Poulenc is bound to come up short and he knew it.
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Branson would not be who he is today if he decided to play it safe and put up with the grueling and useless days of schooling.
But an outstanding performance at Headingley on Friday underlined he is back to his very best, and if it was up to me I would have JJB as a World Cup certainty.
Some Latin Americans, such as Oscar Arias, former president of (army-free) Costa Rica, are dismayed: he fears regional arms races, and argues that it is still up to the United States to prevent them.
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