I believe it was the sight of that old fool Gladstone, standing in the pouring rain holding his special constable’s truncheon as though it were a bunch of lilies, and looking more like an unemployed undertaker’s mute than usual, that made me think seriously about going into politics.
Flash For Freedom!, p.13, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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