Room 101: Ed Slater – England and Leicester lock

1. Petitions
There seems to be online petitions for everything these days … in fact, I might even start a petition to get petitions banned! Don't get me wrong, petitions for just and good causes are worth their weight in gold, but something can't be right when a petition to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson as a presenter on Top Gear gets thousands more signatures than one to help ‘Save the NHS', for example.
TRP verdict: Sadly it's a sign of the times. But you've appealed to our better nature so you're in.
2. Politicians
With the General Election drawing ever closer it brings into sharp focus just how useless the vast majority of politicians appear to be. The party leaders don't seem to represent the normal person in any way whatsoever. When you look at David Cameron and Ed Miliband they lack any sort of character or back bone. How can we be expected to put the major decisions that need to be made in the hands of meaningless people who have spines made of jelly?
TRP verdict: Hear, hear. You've got another ‘yes' vote from us.
3. Moving house
With a second child on the way in September, we've recently had to up sticks and move to a bigger place. You forget what an absolute effort it is to shift everything from A to B, with mountains of boxes full of stuff that you'd forgotten you ever had in the first place or have never used before needing to be unpacked. I'm currently stuck with about 60 boxes that need sorting, all ever so helpfully labelled with descriptions like ‘kitchen' and ‘dining room'. I can't see me getting through that lot for at least a year – at which point we'll probably have to move again! Our job doesn't exactly promote settling down in one place for any lengthy period of time so unfortunately moving house is just something you have to live with.
TRP verdict: No dwelling – if you pardon the pun – needed on this one, either. That's 3 out
of 3