Posted by Ricky in Opinion under on Sep 29 2007
It has been suggested that our candidate was shoe-horned in by the PARTY.. Well, sorry folks, B52 bombers haven’t been found on the moon, and the Americans did not blow up the Twin Towers themselves.
The inconvenient truth is that she held out a promise for the future that was irresistible to the members. She’s smart, eloquent, passionate about the world in the genuine way we are when we’re 17, then grow to pretend we are twenty years later - and yes, to the manner born. Bring ‘em on.
Child of the post-war baby boom. Spent childhood summers on Shoreham Beach. Came of age in the Sixties. Got on my bike in ''79 when Mrs Thatcher won, and rode-off for France and Spain. Enrolled at University in Bordeaux, learned to teach French as a Foreign Language, discovered that we are an integral part of the astonishing tapestry of European Culture, that our differences, so large to us, are invisibly small to the world outside. Found Shoreham again in 1986 and moved down permanently in 1990 with Sally where we have grown up with two wonderful daughters.