In The Bagge

“What does she do? She looks after me. Looks after the children. Runs the house.”

Lady Bagge should contest South-West Norfolk as an Independent, and the revolting Liz Truss could explain how the experience of a homemaker and mother made her unqualified to be an MP. After all, CCO managed to put up someone on Newsnight to argue that neither Sir Jeremy Bagge with his estate, nor anyone else in Norfolk, had any experience of employing people. They really do think that that is what life is like outside London. And not only the Tories.

Unlike Cameron and Osborne, Lady Bagge is presumably a proper, shire toff, who therefore does not think that she is where she is on “merit”, but rather by sheer good fortune, by which Divine Providence confers responsibilities on the more fortunate towards the less fortunate. She doubtless has not their capitalism, which is as anti-agrarian as it is hostile to anything or anyone else. She is unlikely to support making the world anew at the barrel of a gun, or to share Osborne’s anti-fatherhood abortion enthusiasm. It is most improbable that their Israel First, America Second foreign policy views are hers, since those views are as far as can be from the traditional upper-class norm.

Bring her on.

And bring on whichever girl out of the typing pool is to be the New Labour loser here in North-West Durham. Who is she? Where is she? Nothing is done in December, so exactly how much longer are they going to wait? Or can they find absolutely no one at all?