Five.
In the entire country.
I remember more than that in the Consett and Stanley areas alone, back in the day.
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Indeed, Consett remembers the days of the Watson dictatorship only too well.
ReplyDeleteEnough to keep putting him at the top of the poll.
ReplyDeleteA very great man.
As is Clive, a very great loss (for now).