Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 4 October 2008

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week<br type="_moz" />

issue 04 October 2008

Tamzin Lightwater’s unique take on the week

Sunday

Am exhausted already. It’s this earpiece. Every time I get settled into watching a debate or fringe event I hear Gary’s voice shouting orders and I’m running off to some other place where an alleged BCR (Breach of Complacency Rules) is taking place. This morning I ran between the hotel and conference centre five times for a mixture of offences. I had to wrestle buck’s fizz out of the hands of three shadow ministers who will remain nameless — Dave knows who you are! — and a whisky from a shadow cabinet member who claimed it was ‘hair of the dog’. This only proves he broke the rules last night as well, so I chalked him up for two offences. (Which helps me with my BCR targets — vg!)

Then I had to confront an MP openly laughing in the lobby of the Hyatt.

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