Questionnaire

Total Politics has interviewed the two candidates from Green leader, Ashley Gunstock and Caroline Lucas. Weggis has now answered the questions on his blog, and I will now follow suit:


Q1. Why did you get involved in the political world?
A1. 2002, I was very angry about the proposed war on Iraq

Q2. When did you join The Green Party?
A2. 2005 after becoming disillusioned with RESPECT

Q3. What is your earliest political memory?
A3. The Miner's strike

Q4. Which one law would you repeal?
A4. 42 days

Q5. Which one law would you introduce?
A5. A maximum wage

Q6. What’s your favourite view in the world?
A6. River Derwent in Elvington

Q7. What’s your favourite political quotation?
A7. "Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary." Malcolm X

Q8. What music gets you up to dance?
A8. Cheesy pop

Q9. If you could have been present at any debate in the House of Commons over the last three hundred years, which would it have been, and why?
A9. The debate on the vote to go to war with Iraq

Q10. Imagine you are planning a dinner party, pick six people (living or dead) to invite.
A10. Leon Trotsky, Stephen Fry, Judy Garland, Armistead Maupin, Mark Steel, Hugo Chavez

Q11. Who is your best friend in politics?
A11. Most of my friends are less political than me

Q12. What’s your favourite form of transport?
A12. Train (when its not too crowded)

Q13. What’s your favourite dish?
A13. Pizza

Q14. Do you have any phobias?
A14. Wasps

Q15. What do you dream about?
A15. Bizarre randomness

Q16. When did you last cry, and why?
A16. Can't remember, quite a while ago

Q17. What’s the last thing you bought in a shop?
A17. A sandwich meal deal

Q18. What’s the funniest You Tube video you’ve recently seen?
A18. Clips from Robot Chicken Star Wars

Q19. What is the best speech you have ever heard (and been present at)?
A19. Probably George Galloway, even though I don't like the man

Q20. Who’s your favourite comedian?
A20. Jeremy Hardy

Q21. Have you ever cried at a film? Which one(s)?
A21. E.T.

Q22. Which is your favourite political biography or autobiography?
A22. Christopher Isherwood - Christopher and his Kind

Q23. What is your favourite novel?
A23. Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Q24. Name a book you have read which has failed to live up to expectations.
A24. Moby Dick

Q25. Who would you like to say sorry to, and why?
A25. No one

Q26. What job would you be doing if you weren’t involved in the political world?
A26. Comic store.

Q27. Do you have a party trick, or hidden talent?
A27. Doing Elvis on karaoke

Q28. What’s the best holiday you have been on?
A28. France 2006

Q29. Where in the world would you most like to go on holiday?
A29. San Francisco

Q30. When was the last time you used public transport?
A30. Today

Q31. When was the last time you went to the theatre and what did you see?
A31. The London revival of Cabaret

Q32. What do you collect?
A32. DVDs

Q33. What is your most unusual hobby?
A33. I think my hobbies are relatively normal

Q34. Which newspapers do you read regularly?
A34. Guardian and Morning Star on a weekend

Q35. Which websites do you visit regularly?
A35. Facebook. Far too much.

Q36. Which blogs do you love or hate?
A36. Read Derek Wall's regularly

Q37. Which magazines do you subscribe to?
A37. Economist, Time, Radio Times

Q38. Which five words would your friends use about you?
A38. Sleepy, Lush, Opinionated, Odd, Unfit

Q39. Which five words would your enemies use about you?
A39. I would hope I don't have any enemies

Q40. Are you into sport? If so, which ones?
A40. None

Q41. Which is your favourite football team and player?
A41. Don't care for football

Q42. Who is your political hero?
A42. Karl Marx

Q43. Who is your political hate figure?
A43. Norman Tebbit. Obnoxious bigoted old fool.

Q44. What’s your most memorable time in politics?
A44. 2003 anti-war march

Q45. What’s your most embarrassing moment in politics?
A45. Don't have one

Q46. What’s your prediction for the next general election?
A46. Probably the Tories, doubt it will make much difference.

Q47. Who is your favourite and least favourite political interviewer?
A47. Paxman - Montague.

Q48. What do you never miss on TV?
A48. Usually catch Doctor Who

Q49. Which current foreign politician do you most admire?
A49. Hugo Chavez

Q50. What do you listen to/watch when you get up in the morning?
A50. Today programme

Q51. Complete this sentence: The thing I hate about politics is...
A51. people who are in it to server their own interests

Q52. Complete this sentence: The thing I love about politics is...
A52. the chance to make a difference

Q53. What would you like your political epitaph to be?
A53. Meh