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Since when did merely apologising and paying back the money repay the debt to society? I am not the only person who thinks that it does not. If Thieving Laura Pidcock were ever to seek another public office, if she were ever so much as to be suggested for a school governorship, then there would be people who would call the Police.

20 years ago, Hilary Armstrong put the kibosh on my candidacy for the National Executive Committee, which she must have feared stood a fighting chance, by denying me the nomination of my own Constituency Labour Party. That had neither debate nor voting in her day; it was like the court of Elizabeth I in Blackadder. Do you still need the nomination of your own CLP? Even if not, then it would undeniably be embarrassing to have been denied it. Over to the dear old North West Durham CLP, then.

On one level, Thieving Laura's candidacy for Durham County Council here in Lanchester next year would be academic. All Labour candidates must be defeated. Ward by ward, vote for whoever was best placed to defeat them. In the ward that was being contested by the present Leader, who with Oliver Kamm is one of the two most evil men in the world, that needs to be the one man in British politics who would not merely give him a very good run for his money, but be absolutely guaranteed to wipe the floor with him, taking a number of votes such as had never been seen before. That man is George Galloway.

George knows that he is not going to get some kind of electoral pact for Holyrood, and he knows that he is not going to get into that without one. This is his opportunity to be a pivotal figure in the complete reconstruction of a major local authority once it had passed to No Overall Control after more than 100 years as the tarnished jewel in the fool's gold crown of the municipal Labour Right. 

George has never really had that kind of role in both devising and implementing policy, and he would certainly not be given it at Holyrood even in the wildly unlikely event that he were to be elected. Whereas in 2017, it took all of 749 votes to win a seat on Durham County Council for the ward of Chester-le-Street West Central, and 854 for the Leader to top the poll. Turnout was 1,870. George would get that just by being on the ballot paper at all. He is George Galloway.

The defeat of that Leader would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, George is just the man to do this. We would need only to get him registered to vote in County Durham, and preferably in Chester-le-Street, in time to be a candidate on Super Thursday, 6th May 2021.

Eric Joyce once described George as having stepped beyond what was "reasonable and acceptable for Labour MPs". Any Labour electoral opponent of George's, including the present Leader of Durham County Council, has therefore been endorsed by Eric Joyce, and may look forward to being described as such. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at George's election, and not least at his election against this opponent.