But An Observation About Balance

Hadush Kebatu was caught in David Lammy's constituency. A television script editor would reject that as overegging the pudding. Russia, China, Iran, and, hysterically, Catherine Connolly's Ireland are being waved like shrouds by the handsomely remunerated screamers of blue murder, but only China would have the means to threaten Britain, and even then only if it could somehow get them here, while none would have the motive. Look at the land of Lammy, and ask yourself why any of them would want it. Ask yourself why anyone would want it.

And what is the alternative? Which party is ahead in the polls? One fifth of Reform UK's parliamentary contingent has made the most racist public remark by a sitting MP since John Townend and his "homogenous Anglo-Saxon society" that in his constituency had been destroyed by the Vikings. Although not even he bemoaned "the woke liberati in the arty-farty". Come back, Enoch Powell, all is forgiven.

Not that the polls mean much. Sarah Pochin's majority of six is the smallest ever, and safe seats as they used to exist have almost completely disappeared. The Government's thumping majority, which is why there will not be a General Election before 2029, is based on 33.7 per cent of the votes cast, and about 18 per cent of the eligible vote. Supporters of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and others beyond even that, would need to take very few votes indeed to deny Reform scores of seats. The Labour 40 per cent from 2017 could split in any number of directions 12 years later, and that will be seen in every constituency.

Every seat in England will be at least a five-way contest, and the English now vote as if they had Proportional Representation. Scotland and Wales will be that plus further complicating factors. Northern Ireland will be even more Northern Ireland. Such an electorate will make a First Past the Post General Election effectively unpredictable. The world's most sophisticated electorate knows that, and relishes it.