Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 6 January 2007

Monday

Happy New Year and May The Force Be With You in 2007! I think it’s fair to say that Dave’s brilliant message sent shivers down all our spines, mine included, even though I was in the office last week when Jed was writing it. V powerful stuff. If any of us were in any doubt of the seriousness of the battle ahead of us as Darth Vader prepares to take control of the Empire with his formidable band of Imperial Stormtroopers, then our leader’s words must surely galvanise us into a state of readiness. It can be no coincidence that Sky was showing the entire Star Wars saga from start to finish today. Got up at six to watch it from end to end. Think am beginning to understand what Dave means when he talks about ‘Labour’s Dark Side coming to the fore’. Just finished talking to Poppy who was also watching it. She reckons that as followers of the Light, we must continue to use love and beauty as a path to power, whilst the evil Sith rely on overbearing regulation and top-down control. The only problem, we agreed, is that Jedi can occasionally become crippled by their own compassion and act ‘soft’. Nevertheless we remain optimistic that the Empire will fall and the Old Republic will rise again under the brave leadership of Dave Skywalker. Am going to bed now. Feel bit strange and dizzy.

Tuesday

Back at work and the office looks wonderful decorated in Star Wars memorabilia! Plus someone has put up a helpful guide to Who’s Who in the Intergalactic Conservative Party. Now I see it written down, it seems so obvious — who else but our very own director of strategy Jed as the original Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi — a mysterious hermit who tutors Luke Skywalker in the Jedi arts! DD is Hans Solo, the arrogant, reckless, selfish loner (played by dishy Harrison Ford, Poppy insists on pointing out) who reluctantly realises the importance of being part of a team and with his brilliant piloting skills steers the Millennium Falcon spaceship to victory.