The party leaders are so dull and detested you couldn’t make them up, and even politicians on the left now have no common ground in places such as Leith, says the author of Trainspotting
David Cameron and Ed Miliband could never be characters in a novel because they are “drabness personified”, according to the novelist Irvine Welsh.
The author of the cult hit Trainspotting told the Guardian that the political leaders “are too boring for fiction … They’re ‘blanding out’ everything that could possibly be offensive.”
What is it we’re trying to save? A moribund, corrupt, paedophile establishment
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