My grandad hated Thatcher and the Tories. Here’s why he voted for Boris
“I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could do if I had to. At a pinch, I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farmhand. But by no conceivable amount of effort or training could I become a coal-miner; the work would kill me in a few weeks.” George Orwell wrote these words in 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. But I'll always remember them from a speech my grandfather gave to members of his former mining community who had gathered to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher on a hazy spring evening in 2013.
