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Tamzin Lightwater

Wednesday, 12th March 2008

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

However, after much coaxing, Mrs Spelperson has agreed to do half an hour’s leafleting in Kensington (not the rough bit where Dave lives, obviously). Mr Letwin is going to knock on a few doors in Clapham and DD will return to the Tooting council estate where he grew up accompanied by BBC camera crews and a reporter from Radio Tank.

Best of all — Mr Mitchell has offered to go to Rwanda to shore up the African vote! Am v. excited about this, although Jed says he’s not sure it will be necessary. Oh, and little Mr Shapps says he’ll go anywhere (Jed says this also not necessary).

Meanwhile, strange message from Lord A’s office. Am asked to tell Dave’s people: ‘Withdraw support for Non-doms Bill Friday or the organic smoothie order gets it.’ How odd.

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Now I’m really fed up. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, Nigel says the conference is in Tyne and Wear, for goodness sake. The lady at the train booking line wasn’t at all polite when I rang up to change my ticket. Said if I wanted her advice, I would stick to my original plan of travelling to Newcastle and taking the hovercraft. Sure I could hear laughing. Is this the sort of service privatisation has delivered? Maybe Jed is right. Maybe we should renationalise the lot of them.

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