Labour brightened up the otherwise dull and colourless 1960s with T. Dan Smith. To prevent the country from dying of sheer boredom in the 1980s, the Conservatives laid on the recently deceased Shirley Porter. But despite having run many councils over many years, the Liberal Democrats have never produced a similarly flamboyant politician of comparable corruption, so that particular duty to add to the gaiety of the nation is about to fall to Reform UK and to the Green Party.
So far, all that the Greens are managing is Zack Polanski's exaggeration of his ties to the British Red Cross and to the National Council for Hypnotherapy. But Reform is already offering richer pickings, from Robert Jenrick's overseas donations, via Nigel Farage's own flagrant breach of the requirement to declare a personal donation of five million pounds, to the bizarre affair of Andrew Rosindell's billboards, which must have something more to it. See also Matthew Offord's funny little charity, and the question of whether he himself really did pay tax in Scotland. There will be more. A lot more. Let the games begin.
Still, there would apparently be no migrant detention centre in Romford, and come Friday perhaps none anywhere in Havering. But while Green voters do not want there to be migrant detention centres at all, Reform voters do, just not near them. They are the hypocrites.
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