Question Time, Indeed

In all the fuss about the appointment of Nicolai Gentchev as Editor of Question Time, what about the Conservative Party and the assorted Hard Leftists and (mostly South Asian) communalist rabble-rousers whose defections it regularly welcomes with open arms?

Or those who adhere to Demos, a Communist Party continuity organisation which was nevertheless initially directed by a Trot, a Trot whom Cameron would have given a peerage and Ministerial office if he had won an overall majority, just as surely as he would have kept on the old Communist Peter Mandelson, and brought back the old Trotskyists Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers?

Or the 1980s Radical Right, unrepentant old supporters of apartheid South Africa, of the Nazi-harbouring pioneers of monetarism in Latin America, and of many another such regime from Marcos to Mobutu, from Suharto to the Duvaliers, and unrepentant, like the sectarian Left with which it has converged in the last 15 or 20 years, in its advocacy of the legalisation and normalisation of drug use and of sex with children?

Or the continuing SDP party-within-the-party, not least on The Times, which is still acting out the betrayal of Gaitskellism over Europe, the attitude to nuclear weapons wholly at variance with the best of High Toryism, the decadent social libertinism of Roy Jenkins, the comprehensive schools mania of Shirley Williams, her regret at not having resigned in protest against past Labour measures to restrict immigration, and, related to all of those but especially to the last, the fanatical hatred of trade unions?

Or the "Israel First, America Second, Nowhere Third" lobby?

One could go on. And on, and on, and on.