The Lad Himself?

Tony Blair has become Benny Hill, who remained famous abroad long after most people in Britain had assumed that he was dead, and long after he really was dead. He is still quite well-known even among Americans in their twenties, most of whose British contemporaries would never have heard of him. That is also true of Benny Hill.

Is it even legal for a private citizen to conduct his own foreign policy? If so, or even if not but seeing as Blair is getting away with it, a number of possibilities spring to mind, involving a number of private citizens.

But not involving the sad cases who decided to get themselves on television by having a meeting with David Lidington, thereby identifying themselves as a party within the Labour Party, and ripe for expulsion accordingly.

They are convinced that the electorate is desperate to vote for a Blair Restorationist Party; for a Clinton-Macron Party; for them, as them. But of course they would not be the First Past the Post anywhere, just as the Trump-Le Pen Party of 117 Conservative MPs' dreams would lose its deposit everywhere. Notice that even Peter Hitchens can no longer even be bothered to talk about a breakaway party.

Hitchens is still wrong about the Norway Option, and his view of the 1960s is explained rather a lot by the fact that he has never seen either Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music. But if he wants there to be at least one member of the next Parliament who agreed with him about George Bell, prostitution, drugs, and the corrosive effect of capitalism on family life, then help is at hand.

Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I will stand for this parliamentary seat of North West Durham, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. By common consent, Labour, the Conservatives and I are each on 30 per cent support, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.