Ah. A topic about me except of course that it isn't actually about me.
Well, if anyone is interested:
In June 2001 I stood for parliament in an unwinnable seat (Sutton Coldfield) in the UK, and got 19.2% of the vote.
After the election I joined the NHS, and spent a lot of time working on transforming a Community Health Trust, a Health Authority and four Primary Care Groups into a single Primary Care Trust. BTW, it's not as simple (!) as it sounds.
Sadly, by that time my sister was very ill and she died in October 2001, the day before her 37th birthday.
We spent a lot of 2002 writing and recording songs with our new band, Str&nded.; M sister featured prominently in a lot of them.
Towards the end of 2002 I decided to go for selection to be a European candidate. I spent most of the first part of 2002 campaigning (alongside my regular job) and am now no 4 on an 8 person list for the West Midlands. It's extremely unlikely that we will get more than two out of eight elected, but that's life.
In the mean time I've also started fencing again, and now have a UK national ranking. I mainly do foil, but a little sabre and epee on the side.
The European elections are in May 2004. If I'm not elected, I've agreed to move to Belgium in September 2004 to lead a youth-charity there.
In the mean time I'm writing a children's novel about time travel and King Arthur, called 'the Skifters' (from the line in Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight — 'and oft bothe blysse and blunder ful skete have skifted synne'.
Satisfied?
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