'Too Nice to be a Tory'
I've just finished Jo-Anne Nadler's . 'Too Nice to be a Tory - it's my Party and I'll cry if I want to', and quite entertaining it was too. Being of the same vintage, and a Londoner/ outer 'burbs type to boot, there was quite a lot of resonance in some of her anecdotes about being a social leper for being blue, which I've certainly suffered over the years.
I imagine it is my own fault for moving in the wrong circles, but of my current set I can count one card carrying Lib Dem, a couple of French folk with /theoretically/ far left tendencies (although it is amazing how middle age and having mortgages dampens any interest in going to the barricades), an admirer of Ted Kennedy (well, she does hail from his ancestral fiefdom), and a couple of unreconstructed old Labour class warriors. Of those nearest right wing 'civilian' friends, one seems a little confused, as he admires Michael Moore, and is prone to making rather brutish comments about ethnic minorities, despite being Jewish. Hey and indeed ho....
Her tales of youthful male ideologues far more occupied with Renamo and Unita than the minutiae of domestic politics skewered me to good effect too. Yup, I had a 'Victory to the Contras' poster up on the wall for a while.
Overall, not a bad light read, if a tad disjointed and lacking in flow. Not as funny as O'Farrell's 'Things Can Only Get Better', but then the absurdities of the 80's Left were always going to have more comic potential.
And with that I really ought to get back to 'Religion & The Decline of Magic'. Still, I'm half way there.
I've just finished Jo-Anne Nadler's . 'Too Nice to be a Tory - it's my Party and I'll cry if I want to', and quite entertaining it was too. Being of the same vintage, and a Londoner/ outer 'burbs type to boot, there was quite a lot of resonance in some of her anecdotes about being a social leper for being blue, which I've certainly suffered over the years.
I imagine it is my own fault for moving in the wrong circles, but of my current set I can count one card carrying Lib Dem, a couple of French folk with /theoretically/ far left tendencies (although it is amazing how middle age and having mortgages dampens any interest in going to the barricades), an admirer of Ted Kennedy (well, she does hail from his ancestral fiefdom), and a couple of unreconstructed old Labour class warriors. Of those nearest right wing 'civilian' friends, one seems a little confused, as he admires Michael Moore, and is prone to making rather brutish comments about ethnic minorities, despite being Jewish. Hey and indeed ho....
Her tales of youthful male ideologues far more occupied with Renamo and Unita than the minutiae of domestic politics skewered me to good effect too. Yup, I had a 'Victory to the Contras' poster up on the wall for a while.
Overall, not a bad light read, if a tad disjointed and lacking in flow. Not as funny as O'Farrell's 'Things Can Only Get Better', but then the absurdities of the 80's Left were always going to have more comic potential.
And with that I really ought to get back to 'Religion & The Decline of Magic'. Still, I'm half way there.
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