Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody
28 March 2009
Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week
Jed says he’s done the party a huge favour. By stupidly stumbling into a big, damaging row he has made people realise how brilliant and radical our taxcutting plans were before we had to water them down. Although any watering down is merely an aspirational watering and not really happening, of course.
In any case, no one ever went on about how radical our policies were before Ken accidentally scrapped them. So now Jed wants a list of other proposals Ken could temporarily rubbish then Dave decisively reinstate a day later, thus demonstrating conviction and authority. From small and rather mushy acorns do great strategies grow!
Thursday
Mr Hague on the phone again asking why we haven’t put out an update on his campaign to safeguard Wensleydale cheese. I said the press release had obviously got a bit lost in the system and I would chase it up. Maybe if we announced we had a hard-hitting policy on cheese and then got Ken to rubbish it, we might be able to convince people it was actually really rather super. Worth a try...
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