Rod Liddle for Editor of The Independent

More seriously, politically speaking, than at least one other doing the rounds, this Facebook Group seeks to make the most of the best opportunity for a very long time, which seems most unlikely to come again any time soon:

Rod Liddle's editorship of a national daily newspaper would give a voice to:

- The alliance of the traditional Right and the traditional Left against the neoconservative war agenda and its assaults on liberty at home, including, with Alexander Lebedev as proprietor, against any new Cold War with Russia;

- The socially and culturally conservative, strongly patriotic tendencies within the British Left's traditional electoral base;

- Those who recognise that we cannot deliver the welfare provisions and the other public services that our people have rightly come to expect unless we know how many people there are in this country, unless we control immigration properly, and unless we insist that everyone use spoken and written English to the necessary level;

- Those who refuse to allow climate change to be used as an excuse to destroy or prevent secure employment, to drive down wages or working conditions, to arrest economic development around the world, to forbid the working classes and non-white people from having children, to inflate the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, or to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich;

And many, many more.