More From Blameron's One-Party Britain

Not only is Louise Bagshawe on the Cameron A-list despite being a Labour Party member in good standing, and not only will she be permitted to retain her Party card even if she is actually elected as a Tory MP (how many more such A-listers are there, one wonders?), but the question also arises of the ageing MPs for safe Labour seats who, in return for peerages, will be announcing their retirements far too late for the normal selection procedures to be gone through, thus enabling the National Executive Committee to impose absolutely anyone it likes. Who will those lucky devils be?

Well, cast your minds back to the last Tory Leadership Election. There are only 450 active Conservative Associations, and half of those admit publicly to having fewer than 100 members each. Yet a quarter of a million people could be found to vote, and more than two thirds of them voted for the BBC-endorsed Blair clone on the ballot paper. Who were they? And where had they been throughout the previous decade? Well, I know who they will be: look out for them as the imposed Labour candidates for safe Labour seats.

I, meanwhile, am told that I have "auto-excluded" myself from the Labour Party, reducing me from three to a mere two votes in the forthcoming Leadership and Deputy Leadership Elections, since I remain a member of two organisations which are actually going to exist by the time of the General Election after next.