Everyone trying their best to look ‘socio-centric’ (Mr Letwin’s orders), but we are all secretly dreading this week.
MONDAY
Everyone trying their best to look ‘socio-centric’ (Mr Letwin’s orders), but we are all secretly dreading this week. Most of us have never known any other Leader. I will be glad when it’s over. Feels a bit like the time we all went down to Westminster Bridge to watch the great lost whale being towed down the Thames. We laughed and pointed, but inside you felt it was desperately sad and unfair.
These reshuffle stories not helpful either. It is simply not true that Dave is going to demote Hague and Foxy. Last I heard Jed on the subject he said he was planning to move them sideways into key roles which would allow them to devote more time to their outside interests of judo, neocon internet chatrooms and plotting leadership challenges. So they ought to be jolly well grateful.
To complicate matters, Mr Letwin is getting tied up in knots about the meaning of life again. Ringing journalists to tell them he’s had ‘The Big Idea’. Jed keeps telling him there is no Big Idea and even if there is one, Mr Willetts has had it. But this just makes Olly even worse.
TUESDAY
Terrific fun helping with the floorplans. All the rooms at HQ have been named after great social reformers. So we had v jolly time deciding which is the Pankhurst room, Mandela, Gandhi, Toynbee and Scargill rooms.
We’ve also finally got round to putting up the paintings of former leaders. Ran into bit of bother when someone realised we didn’t have one of IDS. Turns out old Smithy never did get his picture painted — he wasn’t in the job long enough for a sitting — and keeps demanding we send an eminent artist to his country estate to capture him in front of his organic chicken coup.
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