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Zoe Williams’s diary: The return of the Tories means tears in the playground

Plus: an election too serious for cheesecake; and the amazing jumping rabbits

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

For the 2005 general election, I had a party featuring a gigantic cheesecake with differentiated segments by allegiance. It contained no purple, which you could call leftie bias, but it genuinely didn’t seem necessary. It certainly wasn’t because I couldn’t think of a purple fruit. The Lib Dems did badly out of that, but mainly because you should never put banana on a cheesecake; they did fine in 2010, when I represented them with lemon macaroons.

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Zoe Williams writes for the Guardian. She is the author of Get It Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics.

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