Book description
Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher
seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear
before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round.
She was smiling and telling the British people to f*** off at the same
time. It was something we would have to get used to.'
Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour
supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative
government. It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of
someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party
lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door
canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing
as a council candidate; and eventually writing jokes for a shadow
cabinet minister.
Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would
never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as
chicken tikki masala and that the nuclear arms race was never going to
be stopped by face painting alone.
John O'Farrell is the author of seven books. His first book, Things
Can Only Get Better, was a number one bestseller and was dramatized for
BBC Radio 4. The Best a Man Can Get was the bestselling debut novel of
2002. As well as being a bestselling author, John O'Farrell is a regular
contributor to television and radio. For the past five years he has
written a weekly humorous column for the Guardian, three collections of
which have been published as Global Village Idiot, I Blame the
Scapegoats and I Have a Bream.
