Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 20 January 2007

Don’t ask me why, but suddenly the buzzword is ‘Thatcher’

issue 20 January 2007

Monday

Don’t ask me why, but suddenly the buzzword is ‘Thatcher’. Memo marked ‘Urgent’ says the T-word count for an average speech is now ten times minimum ‘until further notice’. Jed rushed into the office this morning all breathless and sweaty, and announced extra greenie points (frappuccino machine tokens, carbon offset holiday credits, soft loo-roll allowance!) for anyone who thinks up new and inventive ways of relating Dave’s policies to ‘the Leaderene’.

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