Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody – 12 May 2006

Poppy says if you put your ear to the ground it sounds very much like a thousand people quietly screaming, ‘Gordon is coming!’ All the talk is of ‘timetables’ and ‘transitions’.

issue 13 May 2006

Poppy says if you put your ear to the ground it sounds very much like a thousand people quietly screaming, ‘Gordon is coming!’ All the talk is of ‘timetables’ and ‘transitions’.

Monday
Poppy says if you put your ear to the ground it sounds very much like a thousand people quietly screaming, ‘Gordon is coming!’ All the talk is of ‘timetables’ and ‘transitions’. Hezza has been on the phone saying it takes him back to ‘the glory days of ’90, yes indeed, mmmm’. Poppy says Dave will have to change too or Gordon will rip ‘his head straight off’. She says with glassy eyes that only DD has the stamina to withstand the onslaught of old-fashioned political violence that is about to be unleashed. She needs help, I think.

Tuesday
We are compiling a list of ‘Bad Things about Gordon’. Gideon says he taps his glass eye with his pen when you’re trying to speak at the Dispatch Box.

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