The Secret to Henley
Personally, I was quite disappointed when I turned on my computer this morning to see the results of yesterday’s polls, I was hoping for a closer race. I guess a lot of soul-searching will be done by the campaign team over the next few days.
However, On the metro into work I came across something that added at least a small consolation. When back in the UK over the weekend I picked up my old copy of ‘The political animal’ by Jeremy Paxman. By a small stroke of coincidence that bit I got to this morning was when he went to meet a man named ‘Boris Johnson’ (never heard of him) when he was out canvassing to become the representative for Henley in the 2001 general election. As well as bits about voters telling him all they wanted was someone who would bring back hanging and get out of Europe, JP has this to say:
“Henley is the sort of place where they’d vote a mule into parliament if it promised to kick in the right direction”
Cheered me up a bit - I’m glad we are not kicking in that direction.
