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Derek - from the latest edition of Private Eye
I thought I'd post the article here
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Arriving in the Big Brother house for the sixth series of the reality show, black gay Tory Derek Laud told viewers he had “penned speeches for the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Heseltine while working in the House of Commons”, that his favourite book was Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, and that he was proud to be known to friends by the nickname “Golly”.
Should he manage to avoid eviction and stay in the house for the show’s full 13-week run, perhaps he will manage to clarify some of these points to his housemates: despite writing letters on Commons notepaper and giving the palace of Westminster as his official address in Debretts during the 1990s, he actually held no parliamentary position – instead he was busy running a lobbying company, Ludgate Laud, which is alleged to have attempted to fix honours for its clients in return for cash donations to the Conservative party.
Another firm for which Laud worked in the 1980s, Strategy Network International, did PR work for several companies connected to the apartheid regime in South Africa which graciously allowed Mandela so much time to research his book.
The name “Golly” was bestowed upon him by chums in the far-right Monday Club, which supported an end to immigration and the repatriation of black people. Laud, who is Jamaican, was the club’s secretary. His peculiar accent was attributed by some charming Tory MPs to his “having eaten a very posh missionary”.
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13-06-2005, 07:52 PM
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