This Honourable House (2012)

Authors: Edwina Currie

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“The blue Vauxhall Astra was hardly a magnificent motor. At the date of the divorce it had been sitting neglected in the garage for months, the battery flat, and would not start when she had tried to drive it away. This car, unlike Frank’s adored old Jaguar, had had no repairs or servicing for years; the main use to which Frank put it was for toddling round the constituency during election campaigns, the better to convince the punters that their Member was a man of the people. In fact, older vot...ers preferred to see him in the bigger car, which advertised his authority; they would wave and flag him down, peer inside the back and touch the cream leather interior, full of curiosity. They felt included in, not excluded from, his fame and shared his taste for the trappings of success. Those youngsters who sneered and showed two fingers as the Jag swept majestically past were unlikely to vote anyway, for anyone.
So the Astra’s paintwork was dull, its rust and blemishes a testimony to lack of funds and care.MoreLess Read More Read Less