Markedly?

Increase defence spending, Jeremy Hunt? On what, exactly? On whom? There is already nothing to stop people from joining the Armed Forces. They do not do so, because they do not want to. And they are not going to want to.

After all, for what would they be fighting? For whom? Britain has spent 20 years taking out the bulwarks against the Islamist terrorism that sets off bombs on our soil at the expense and under the direction of our dear friends, the House of Saud.

We have done that in Yugoslavia, where we have also created the statelet that is flooding our streets with guns, heroin and prostitutes. We have done it in Iraq. We have done it in Libya. Our Government has tried to do it in Syria. In Afghanistan, we have replaced one lot of Islamist terrorists with another, but we are now about to give the place back to the first lot. Who would want to fight for any of that?

In no case did we take out an "anti-British dictator" such as Jeremy Corbyn is accused of having favoured. The old Yugoslavia was quite Anglophile. Corbyn was opposed to Saddam Hussein on human rights grounds when the Major Government was still arming him even after the Gulf War. Gaddafi had become a valued British ally until days before we went to war with him for no strategic reason, thereby creating the Mediterranean refugee crisis. Assad even has a British wife.

There is still a strong folk memory of British imperial power in Iran, but it is laughable when stated to British people today. Although we do have spies there, of course, and, frankly, Aras Amiri might very well be one of them. When they get caught, then they do have to take the consequences. They know that. Notice the lack of fuss that the British Government is making. Nevertheless, in order to keep things that way, then we ought to insist on the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Not on a war. On the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

The faction that we propose to install in Iran, the barking mad PMOI/MEK, has been in exile since 1981, and has no constituency in a country of which half the population is under 30. But it has the backing of the real anti-British dictatorship and sponsor of terrorism, which is Saudi Arabia. Much of our Political Class is financially dependent on Saudi Arabia, which is why the view is either screamed down or ignored that the best way to defend this country would be to spend money on things other than Saudi Arabia's wars.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and 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.