why, you got a re-match with her there?
next time i will bite my tongue
(as she said etc.)
funnily enough - although he was no Sloane and i doubt voted Tory - i did once, in hindsight, say a glaring double entendre to some old boy stood next to me as we both had a tinkle in the urinals at
this pub.
in seriousness, Stoke Central:
i read this bloke.
oh sorry: Tristram Hunt, metropolitan telly personality and New Labour man, w seeming little or no knowledge of the area, parachuted in to stand as candidate, against the wishes of the local party who contain plenty of Old Labour sorts.
Mark Fisher (not k-punk), one of my fave Old Labour backbenchers, standing down at the next election for health reasons, he is the current MP. until recently, as the blogger above recently informed readers of Liberal Conspiracy in a guest post, every single councillor in the city (all 70) was Labour, a remarkable statistic even compared i think to the northeast, northwest or Humberside. now of course there's a lot of BNP there.
dangerous, combustible times in the Potteries. (as in so many places, granted, but it's very acute there.)