Ivor What, And Why?

Ivor Caplin thought that a 15-year-old would be attracted to a 66-year-old if he wore clown shoes and had a bag of sweets. This worldly-wise genius was a Defence Minister.

It is back now, as unimproved as it is unimproving, but for part of this evening, Caplin's largely pornographic Twitter account appeared to have been deleted, even though he was in police custody. His mobile phone would have been taken from him when he had been arrested, and certainly when he had been arrested for something like this, so people began to ask how that action had been performed. Lo and behold, it was reversed. But if nothing else, how can someone who posted such material retain a Labour Party membership card? Never mind the parliamentary pass that Caplin still held?

Yet to whom might one complain? Tulip Siddiq thought that Keir Starmer was offering her the position of Minister for Aunty Corruption. He sacked Louise Haigh, whose resignation statement the House of Commons still awaits, for something about a mobile phone. Even the Conservatives are now calling for the dismissal of Siddiq. But then, it is the entire Ministerial roster at the Treasury, which for some reason has eight Ministers including the First Lord, that needs to be cleared out.

And speaking of Bangladesh, Nigel Farage now agrees with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Peter Hitchens that Shamima Begum should be brought back to Britain to stand trial, not that she would have any reason to come here, since we are all supposed to be delighted that her faction had taken over as much of Syria as Israel did not yet want, giving that faction no reason to extradite or deport her. Farage's base is furious. Again. Reform UK may be riding high in the polls, and that ticker thing may be going 19 to the dozen, but Elon Musk from the other side of the world, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon from solitary confinement, are peeling off one side of it, while the other is gently easing back into the Tory fold on whatever terms the Conservative Party cared to set. The General Election will not be for a very long time.