Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 24 February 2007

Have discovered the Master Plan! It was underneath a Scooby Doo yoga mat in the Tranquillity Room

issue 24 February 2007

Monday

OK, OK, I was wrong. (It does happen you know.) I may have been a teensy bit oversensitive about the whole ‘marriage’ thing. But I am now prepared to admit that it does seem that it may, after all, be the answer to everything. I cannot argue with statistics showing that hardly anybody on these south London housing estates is married. And everyone is getting shot. Contrast that with the situation in, let’s say, Witney, where 95 per cent of people are married. And gun crime is nonexistent. Also, as Jed explained to us at Strategy Hub, there are no end of political problems you can apply the marriage formula thingy to and with the added benefit that banging on and on about it buys off a huge chunk of the grassroots! How clever is that?

Maybe I was being a bit touchy because I have failed to ‘Be the Change’ as far as this particular diktat — or should I say Dave-tat! — is concerned.

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