No matter what you say, it can't have been easy being the target of several very tough constituencies simultaneously, history being one of them.
Its senior employees have lifetime tenure and there are plenty of other tough constituencies, from pushy alumni to students who are paying through the nose to be there.The job of a university president is shrinking from being a public intellectual to being a mere fund-raiser, and a temporary one at that.
I fought – and won – in a tough Yorkshire constituency.
The daughter of a trade unionist and teacher, and granddaughter of a miner, she went to a comprehensive school in the south before being elected in the tough northern constituency of Pontefract and Castleford.
Accompanying a Labour MP through his tough north Glasgow constituency, your columnist heard him make no mention of Better Together.
Perhaps we have been lucky, but both my children went to local schools in the heart of what is a fairly tough inner-city constituency and both deny having been discriminated against on account of their father's profession.
It also "energized the tough-on-crime constituency," says Steven Drizin, the supervising attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University School of Law.
It is well-known that public prison employee unions constitute a powerful constituency for tough sentencing policies that lead to larger prison populations requiring additional prisons and personnel.
Mr. Zapatero, in turn, it is said, just might relish some kind of eventual E.U. involvement, guidance or assistance in enacting the tough austerity measures his constituency, notably the trade unions, would otherwise resist.
Levitt now advises one of the most powerful private equity companies, the Carlyle Group, not exactly a constituency for tough reform.
