And they are nicely geographically disparate so are disproportionately electorally significant under FPTP

Which headset are you using?

As I’ll never tire of pointing out: the average punter picking up a paper in 2021 or so would firmly believe the country’s most reckless bigots were Stonewall, its most dangerous racists were the Labour left and the worst threat to the nation was treasonous, totalitarian academics.

I know I have maybe 15 points which I recycle over and over. But if you’re my age, your experience of politics as an adult is Blairism, migrant terror, disastrous war, financial calamity, destructive vandalism of the public realm, Covid disaster and finally Sir Keir, genocide and imminent fascism.

How come the people who were splashed all over the papers for a decade screaming terrifying abuse at the anti-racist movement are now roaring approval in unison for the government stripping jewellery off migrants? It’s almost like we should put two and two together about what these people have done.