Wednesday, 5 September 2012

A Government of Moral Purpose

The Department that ostentatiously sends out Bibles to schools, Bibles featuring both a preface by the Secretary of State and a reference to his very person on the cover (why not a photograph?), now has both David Laws and Liz Truss as Ministers.

But it would be wrong to pick on one Department. In After The Party, a collection of reminisces published last year to mark the twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Andrew Pearmain writes:

"I started sleeping with other women on my trips to London, other Communist students and even a Tory member of the NUS Executive whose taste for rough sex really shocked me; she later joined the SDP."

Well, she is not in the SDP, or even the Lib Dems, now.

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