Can you recommend a restaurant? We do like our curry, so it would have to be the Shanaz, with all that fake greenery downstairs. The guys there are great with my little son. I love the neck-biting naga they do there, they make it just right, it’s got the heat but there isn’t too much pain.
What do you think of the plans for the Phoenix development? It’s a bit of an eyesore at the moment, so something needs to be done there. It has a strong industrial history, so it would be good to see it to continue to provide that sort of work. What I’d hate to see would be lots of overpriced residential stuff that doesn’t give anything back to the area.
What newspaper do you read? I have to read them all because of the campaign. Out of choice I would read the Grauniad or the Telegraph. Something with a non-Murdoch view.
What’s you favourite Lewes landmark? The town cemetery. I have a strong memory - one of my first - of being there when I was tiny. The cropped grass, the marble, the green glass chips they used to put down. Those silver planters with holes in them: I used to think that’s where the dead people breathed through. There was a slate grey sky that day, and my senses were inundated. It’s such a peaceful place. I would like to go there for my final sleep.
If ID cards were made compulsory would you carry one? No. I’d do anything in my power to resist not just the card, but the registration of me and my family. Prison? If it comes to that, I may have to. You’ve got to stand up and push against this scheme at every stage: that’s what happened the last time there were ID cards in 1951. A man called Clarence Wilcock refused to show his card to a certain PC Muckle. It eventually went to the House of Lords and Churchill decided to abolish ID cards in 1952 in the ‘Bonfire of the Regulations’.