My parents were both big thinkers and I started thinking from a very young age. I guess that I thought that it was clever to think. “Dialectical materialism”, “means of production”, “global inequality”: I couldn’t get enough of it. Thinking cost me my education and I flunked my A levels and my poly course. Thinking also wrecked my personal life: it cost me two marriages.I couldn’t get a proper job and ended up an official for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Makers even though I couldn’t sow a button on my flies. It won’t surprise you to hear that I ended up in Parliament. I felt useless and there seemed nowhere else to go.

Then earlier this year I met Dr Damian Front. He saw what had happened to me and asked me to a mindlessness.net meeting. It changed my life. It wasn’t easy but with Dr Damian as my sponsor I completed the 12 step program and discovered mindlessness. It stopped me having any thoughts at all. I became leader of the Labour Party without even thinking it was possible. Thank you, Dr Damian.

(image Garry Knight, Wikimedia Commons)