Politics

David was a Labour man through and through.  He'd been working as a volunteer for Tom Levitt, the MP for High Peak - but his political enthusiasm for Labour goes back to his earliest days.  He embraced the New Labour cause, though with some trepidation and doubt about Iraq. He had no time for the Blair detractors and self-defeating squabbling within Labour's own ranks.  He was loyal and committed - but not unquestioningly or without concern for the party's longer term.
More than just the party, he loved arguing about politics and policy - whether round the dinner table over a glass or two, at party meetings or with friends at Gasbag. Never without an opinion and always ready to discuss.
I wish he was here for the election 2010 - he'd still take a dim view of the Tories, and would be intrigued by Clegg-o-mania and the calculations and intrigues of a hung parliament.