Headlines

“Anything wrong?”

“It’s about Nadia…”

“She’s good isn’t she? Another headline only recently.”

“Yes Keir, but have you seen what’s behind the headline?”

“Why – it’s not bad is it? Not another of those pervy stories?”

“No it’s just –read the story itself.”

“Well she has merely… good grief. I don’t mind our people being a little behind the curve, but there are limits. Great heavens – we must have limits. Can’t we have a test or something? Keep out anyone who is actually – you know – a bit short on grey matter.”

“That’s my point Keir. We need to control the dim ones. You know who they are and so do the media of course. Usually it doesn’t matter too much, but we need to steer clear of being labelled the thick party.”

“Well surely that’s what we are because disadvantaged voters need somewhere to go. I take your point though, we don’t actually want the label Nadia seems keen to give us. Good grief she’s dim enough for two. Where did we find her?”

“I don’t know. Could have been one of our trawler sessions among mouthy radicals, but I don’t know.”

“So if we cut to the chase – how many do we have who could be exposed as irretrievably dim?”

“Quite a few. Angela – ”

“Oh hell… On second thoughts I don’t want to know. This job is so exhausting.”