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Penny Booth: Secret pasts

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Date:4 MAY 2010

Secret pasts

Penny BoothAt election time some politicians keep secret their pasts and hide from public view the little bits they do not want the electorate to see or know about... in some cases it is the little nuances of life that tell us much of a person or a situation. We have had plenty of that from our legislature over the last year or so and top-ups during the election campaign. The constant question is - just what of what we see hear or are told can we believe? Let's hear it politicians - once more for the electorate.

This week the child in me was rather shocked to read that ‘Heidi has a secret past...' (The Times Friday April 30 2010 page 44). I remember the Heidi of old that sweet story by Johanna Spyri which inspired television serials and with wonderful scenes in the Swiss Alps that has undoubtedly fed the holiday dreams...

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