| After a bruising week in which he first admitted to alcoholism and
then resigned as party leader, ex-Lib-Dem leader, Charles Kennedy issued a heartfelt plea
to the wider political world this week : "Having finally sobered up, I find that
I’ve been the leader of the UK’s third biggest political party for the last six
years. I wonder if anyone can fill me in on how this happened and also help me locate a
really nice Remington lighter that I last remember putting down on a table in a boozer
sometime in 1986." |
It is thought that Mr Kennedy, will, after a period of reflection
and going round apologizing to everyone just to be on the safe side, embark on penning his
political memoirs, likely to be a uniquely collaborative venture. "I did start keeping a political journal in 1987, or was it
1988? Anyway, I think I left it on a bus somewhere, or was it a taxi? Anyway, the point
is, I need to fill in a few gaps over what happened during the period when I was
apparently the leader of some political party or other. |
I’ll be calling on party
colleagues to help fill in the missing bits, mainly covering everything that happened
between 1999 and me waking up this morning." Mr Kennedy’s hurried admission of
his dependency apparently came just before ITV were about to run a killer story on his
alcohol-related redneckery.
Leading one to ponder that it might be possible to recover from alcoholism but
there’s no cure for being a politician. |
