Arte et Labore?

One might disagree with much of this, though by no means with all of it. It is most notable for its hypocrisy from a party which supported the invasion of Iraq, supports the war in Afghanistan (as all three of them have always done), spreads the lie of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, and drew eighty per cent of its MPs in the last Parliament from those treasonably paid to promote the interests of the Israeli Hard Right, as much as anything else whether or not the Israelis themselves happened to vote for such parties. Anything up to one hundred per cent will be the figure in the forthcoming Parliament.

But they are a cross-party infestation; did anyone else hear Luciana Berger during the extended Election Broadcast for her that purported to be a report on The World At One? She sounded as if she was being played by Matt Lucas, or David Walliams, or Catherine Tate. Surely, she cannot be for real? Can she? There is probably no other constituency in which one should vote Lib Dem this time. But Liverpool Wavertree is the only constituency being contested by Luciana Berger.

Anyway, back to the Blackburn leaflet. I don't know what else anyone expected from Cameron. His vehicles toured Ealing Southall blasting out in Asian languages that Hindu, Muslim and Sikh festivals would be made public holidays under the Tories. It was his “Quality of Life Commission” that then proposed giving the power to decide these things to “local community leaders”. What else would those figures be given the power to decide in return for filling in every postal voting form in their households in the Bullingdon Boys’ interest, and making sure that all their mates did likewise? To the statelets thus created – little Caliphates, little Hindutvas, little Khalistans, and so on – people minded to live in such places would flock from the ends of the earth, entrenching the situation for ever. Labour Councillors and activists fairly regularly defect to the Tories on frankly communal grounds and are always welcomed with open arms. The present candidate at Ealing Southall is one such.

Also welcomed with open arms has been the SWP faction within the Respect Group on Tower Hamlets Council. At least one anti-marriage, anti-monarchist Lib Dem student leader, and we all know who engages in that sort of entryism. The Trotskyist who ran Tony Blair's favourite think tank, itself a Communist Party continuity organisation. And the founder and only ever Leader of a very recently dissolved, RMT-funded, Tommy Sheridan-allied party dedicated to Welsh separatism, Welsh-speaking supremacism, Hard Left economic policy, and hardline Political Correctness; as an MP, he tried to replace the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen with an Oath of Allegiance to the Human Rights Act.

Among many, many, many others.