"The de-dusting pump", Chronik 1913
Campaigning for the EU is like trying to be a passionate advocate for hoovering. You can recognise its benefits but it is very hard to love. Try as I might but when as an SNP government minister it came to talking up the EU it sounded like I was listening to a recording of someone else speaking. I can accept the case for voting to remain in the EU only on a coldly cerebral level.
The only consideration that quickens the pulse is the prospect of whatever crazed Brexiteer Tory would enter Downing Street following a David Cameron resignation. Even then since I find myself on the side that keeps a loathed Conservative prime minister staying in office, I have to pinch myself. It’s like being trapped in a nightmare brought on by eating bendy bananas before bedtime.
