This particular State Visit is a sign of a Conservative Party that is down to a core vote strategy within its core vote strategy.
It is desperately trying to motivate people whom it openly despises, but whom it used to be able to say had "nowhere else to go". Those people's reply is no longer even the name of another party. It is now "the telly" or "the pub".
Yet, as the estimable Ronnie Campbell pointed out on Newsnight, Jeremy Corbyn is probably wrong to decline an invitation to dine with Donald Trump.
For one thing, it has brought out those funny little people who use terms such as "leader of the free world". And how likely to Trump to want to meet Corbyn anywhere else, after this?
It is desperately trying to motivate people whom it openly despises, but whom it used to be able to say had "nowhere else to go". Those people's reply is no longer even the name of another party. It is now "the telly" or "the pub".
Yet, as the estimable Ronnie Campbell pointed out on Newsnight, Jeremy Corbyn is probably wrong to decline an invitation to dine with Donald Trump.
For one thing, it has brought out those funny little people who use terms such as "leader of the free world". And how likely to Trump to want to meet Corbyn anywhere else, after this?
Those saying that Trump could not care less whether Corbyn, or Vince Cable, or John Bercow, turned up are of course quite right. But as so often when colonial politicians have been a bit uppity, the imperium is not the target audience. Such things are "for domestic consumption".
Cable, at least, is being politic here. The people who will appreciate this gesture are his people. But they are not Corbyn's. They are the people in Corbyn's party who spend all their time trying to bring him down.
They are the people who have seceded from that party and who have been endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, of whom no more than one per cent of British voters has ever heard, but who should still be told to mind her own business.
They are the people who wallow in the squalor of the Clintons, and who would give their right arms for dinner with Barack Obama, who has killed far more people than Trump ever has or probably ever will. Obama also has form as a meddler in British politics. I wish Pelosi all the success with Change UK that Obama had with the Remain campaign.
Alas, though, those whose two darkest days were the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the victory of Leave will make up the bulk of the next House of Commons, as they do of this one. Mercifully, they will be spread across several political parties, and another hung Parliament is coming. We need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Alas, though, those whose two darkest days were the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the victory of Leave will make up the bulk of the next House of Commons, as they do of this one. Mercifully, they will be spread across several political parties, and another hung Parliament is coming. We need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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