True Blue: Strange Tales from a Tory Nation

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David Matthews. True Blue: Strange Tales from a Tory Nation

CHRIS HORRIE AND DAVID MATTHEWS. True Blue. Strange Tales from a Tory Nation

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CONTENTS

PREFACE ‘No, Janet, It’s One of My Writing Thingies’

ONE The Sound of the Suburbs – Richmond, Surrey

TWO Village Cricket People – Rodmell, Sussex

THREE Dam Busters and Morris Dancers – Woodbridge, Suffolk

FOUR Get Me the Ugandans! – Wandsworth, London

FIVE Houses of the Holy – Henley, Oxfordshire

SIX Floral Jam – Basingstoke, Hampshire

SEVEN Cecil Rides Again – Belgravia, London

EIGHT Glastonbury for Squares – Stoneleigh, Warwickshire

NINE The Heart of Clarkness – Kensington, London

TEN This Land Is My Land – Blenheim, Oxfordshire

ELEVEN The Grouchy Club – Mayfair, London

TWELVE Polo Minted – Chester, Cheshire

THIRTEEN Rubber Chickens – Watford, Hertfordshire

FOURTEEN A Right Boules Up – Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

FIFTEEN The Charlatans – Hammersmith, London

SIXTEEN Majorettes and Export Strength – Dagenham, Essex

SEVENTEEN Inside the Magic Kingdom – Chartwell, Kent, and Westminster, London

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Chris dedicates his work on this book to Clare, Lotte and Tom.

David dedicates his work on this book to his mother.

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As for Susan Kramer, the new Lib Dem election candidate, the script made it clear I should emphasize that she was an ‘outsider’ and a ‘foreigner’ who had ‘few links with Richmond’ and had ‘lost in other constituencies’. The script also said Kramer was Hungarian, although why all this should matter, particularly given that Marco’s links with Richmond didn’t seem particularly strong either and he was of Italian extraction, was anybody’s guess.

Taking a momentary break from phoning the existing supporters, I turned to face the ladies and said: ‘It says here that Kramer is Hungarian. I didn’t know she was Hungarian.’

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