Tristram Hunt had “returned to the fold” and told his friends and family that “his life a socialist was just a phase”.
Tristram, son of Julian the Baron Hunt of Chesterton, first found himself gravitating towards the “New Way scene” whilst growing up in the mean streets of Newmarket.
“I saw for myself the humiliation of those forced to attend Gymkhana in Japanese 4x4s” he told us.
But it wasn’t until he discovered a Degree from Cambridge meant that you could get a safe Labour seat in Parliament “somewhere in the North” without ever going there that he really felt that he belonged amongst the other, half-baked Blairites.
“At first I felt dirty – like I was doing something wrong – but “The Scene” was so welcoming and accepting that I just felt at home” he continued.
“I now know it’s a mistake; just a phase” he told us. “Once the excitement of being ‘a Rebel’ wore off I felt like something was missing. It was with the ‘real people’, the ‘working people’, that I really belonged. Just being “a Socialist” didn’t fit in with who I really am” he confided.
The call came to really help the working man and Tristram was brave enough to step up for the masses. “At the V&A I can take the tax gathered disproportionately from the lowest paid and use it to really help them by buying dirty underwear & tents from Tracy Emin” he gushed.
“And maybe one day others will realise that simply having principles, offering to serve people for a specified term and then returning that trust with dedicated hard work and loyalty just isn’t the way to do things.”
