ReadingRoom A short story about a National Party candidate lost in a storm with the ghost of Liberalism past   They welcomed me with open arms even though they knew I was a signed up paid up and vocal member of the Labour Party when I was younger. Much younger, in my teens and twenties. But this is a desired stage of political awareness, as Churchill supposedly said, before we develop mature conservative brains and allow them to overwhelm our childish socialist hearts. Through my thirties I let politics drift, not interested in it at all, not that I would tell that to the National Party.

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