http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1884994,00.html
"When he was Tory leader, William Hague used to enjoy a huge oak- panelled office overlooking the Thames. He regards the modern fourth- floor office he now has at Westminster, all blond wood and nowhere near as grand, as one of the 'countless consolations' of demotion. 'I can see all the riots,' he says gleefully of his view over Parliament Square. Hague's outlook has shifted dramatically on his journey from leader to backbencher and back again as, in effect, David Cameron's deputy. The politician who once wanted to put asylum seekers into camps and slash taxes by £8bn now argues that immigration is not a social problem and that public services come first. .... Having to resign, he says, taught him that, 'I didn't have to be, or need to be, a politician,' and thus freed him to return on different terms. 'It's no longer the train hurtling down the tracks that has to get to the station called 10 Downing Street, but just coming back on the basis of joining in, offering whatever I have gained from previous experience. Once you have made that jump it's not difficult to be dispassionate about your own experience: there's no reason to be proud or touchy.' If this all seems remarkably Zen, that is no coincidence. 'I am quite eastern in my mentality,' he admits. 'It was all those years of transcendental meditation.' Hague used the technique to relax and still does so occasionally. So if he is truly happy being, as he puts it, 'number two to the number one,' what does the new leader have that he didn't?" To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
