"My mum suddenly decided she'd seen enough of it, came into the pub, pulled me out and said, 'Right, kid, you've got to get yourself back on track.' She told me, 'You're better than this.
Nige loves fags and beer so much, when other politicians pull their spouses on stage and do interviews in their kitchen, he just sits in a pub, pulls another pint of Bombardier, and pretends to know the locals.
It is a stunning piece of subterfuge that one of the architects of an administration whose ideological hostility to the idea of social living can be read almost entirely through the decline of British drinking culture can walk into a pub, pull a pint badly, smile and say not just "It wasn't me," but "See how I have helped you".
Last year pubs pulled less than half as many pints as they did 30 years ago.
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There are two checks that he wrote here, one to 'Christianity Today,' and one to 'Pub.' Pull the hammer back on that little gun, and it makes an explosion noise (still works)." 7.1.05 Howard Beach Redux.
We told them about his sporting prowess, about the way he could lift himself on to the roof terrace at the back of the pub just by pulling himself up with his hands.
Nachos, which we eat at the pub, are good (pulling a cheese-swathed tortilla chip skywards counts as a form of physio, surely) although I tend to find the odd kidney bean in the recesses of his wheelchair after he's made a meal of them.
He's eloquent in the manner of a pub raconteur – avuncular, even – pulling me in for a hug when the interview finishes.
