When I was at Trent Polytechnic we were expected to give presentations to outside organisations. One day my Head of Department, Glanville Griffiths, informed me that I had been selected to speak at a trade union meeting on the then government's proposed changes to labour and trade union law. The venue was a pub in Derby's cattle-market.
I arrived early. The pub was on a mound in the middle of the market and I noted that the cars parked round the mound were rather expensive. When I arrived at the meeting I discovered that the trade union was an employers' trade union. There then followed a very rapid revision of what I had intended to say.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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