Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 19 May 2007

Am in severe shock. Just put the phone down from the Labour press office.

issue 19 May 2007

MONDAY

Am in severe shock. Just put the phone down from the Labour press office. Someone called ‘Bev’ rang to say she had found 15 inaccuracies in stories we briefed to the papers this weekend, including five major ‘porkers’ about Gordon’s economic record.

She was v loud and bossy and went on and on about how gloves had come off and they weren’t going to take this &@*£ from us lying down any more. She asked me what I intended to do about it and when I said nothing she demanded I fetch my ‘supervisor’. I said I didn’t have a supervisor. She said ‘what a f@****@ shower’ and told me to ‘brace myself’ for a call from someone called Roger. In the meantime, I’m not to release any more ‘barefaced Tory lies’ if I don’t want to feel a great ‘clunking fist’. Well!

We’re struggling a bit with this eco-town lark.

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