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Family Memories

Lots of the interviews in From the Grassroots seem to start with family memories of politics, so I thought I would start things off in the Community with one of mine. My family are all politically interested but have never been particularly active. My Dad - who I'm fairly confident votes Conservative, although in our family we do not ask how the others vote (and he would tell me it was a matter between him and the polling booth if I did!) - remembers that my Nan would never let him take her to the polling station on election day. She would refuse lifts from all of the party activists until the Conservatives came around, when she would be, according to Dad, 'insufferably nice' to him. As my Nan was a very committed Labour supporter this confused my Dad as a child, until she finally revealed one day: "if I'm in his car he can't take anyone to the station who might actually vote for him!" One way of making your vote count twice, I guess!

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