Are You Shaw?

Kemi Badenoch should ask David Cameron about wrestling with a pig. But on 4 July 1948, Aneurin Bevan famously told a rally, in fact in Manchester, that the Conservatives were "lower than vermin". In response was created the Vermin Club, the members of which wore a chrome badge depicting a rat and bearing the word VERMIN. There was an appropriately Tory hierarchy of such badges. Those who had recruited 10 new members to the Conservative Party were Vile Vermin, and those who had recruited 25 were Very Vile Vermin. The future Margaret Thatcher was a Chief Rat. Reform UK, over to you.

The abolition of stamp duty would be good if you could pay for it. And you could, by taxing the productive value of land per acre, other than that occupied by the homes of the less well off. Andy Burnham could tell you all about that. He has been working on it for at least 15 years. And while I do understand the need to restore the equalisation of capital gains tax with income tax, as obtained under Thatcher, I have never understood the exemption of main residences from CGT. Since I am not an academic and I am never going to contest another election, I suppose that I do not need to understand it. But if you did, and you wanted to do something about it, then as with the restoration of equalisation, the man to ask would be Jeremy Corbyn.

He could also disabuse both Badenoch and Helen Whately of their tabloid fantasies about Motability for ADHD, and such like. No, you cannot get it for that; you may get it while also having that, but that is something else. No, you cannot just sign yourself off for anxiety, and you certainly cannot get sickness and disability benefits for that or for anything else by anything less than a process that in fact drives many people to suicide, which is the real scandal. And if one in four of us is disabled, then one in four of us is disabled. Really, when was that ever not the case? What point are you trying to make?