Like Dennis Skinner before him on Ukraine, Nigel Farage did nothing more than state what everyone could and can see to be the case.
The EU and NATO, by having fomented the Kiev coup, have blood on their hands.
Especially in the deep countryside, practically feudal Conservative Associations used to furnish us with MPs whose public schools had most certainly not sent them on to Oxbridge or to any other university.
The hereditary principle in the House of Lords could have a similar effect.
In those days, neither the City nor the Officer Corps even much cared for graduates, still less did they more or less insist upon them.
Meanwhile, the role of the old manual trade unions in Labour parliamentary selections is very well-known. They, too, furnished no shortage of Peers of the Realm.
I am not suggesting that those of us with academically swanky CVs ought to have no place in political life. There were always plenty of us, too.
But, with Dennis Skinner aged 82 and with Nigel Farage neither an MP nor ever likely to be, there has been a real loss of those who have not been trained out of stating the plain facts, and who are therefore likely to do so.
We have never needed them more.
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