Thursday 17th November

It may have started when cigar-smoking Harold Wilson affected a pipe, but it may have been before that.  The spectacular rise of the LibDems in the late Nineties may be partly due to the Celebrity Status of Charlie Kennedy who joyfully appeared on Have I Got News For You.  Followed shortly by Boris, who used his Celebrity to win the London Mayor election.  And now, after Farage and Trump, it is full-on Celebrity Politics.

And how strange life is; Ed Balls was never a popular Politician, even within the Labour Party.  But now that he is on ‘Strictly’, and prepared to make a fool of himself, he is suddenly everyone’s favourite – to the extent that he may actually win the damn thing despite having three left feet (well they wouldn’t be right, would they) and several really accomplished dancers will get voted out.

So, from now on we will have full-on Celebrity Elections.  Mrs. May in the Jungle with cockroaches in her hair (and not fellow Cabinet members either) and Jeremy Corbyn being parachuted while singing along to “Simply Red – Money’s too tight to mention” live on X factor.  No policies; they are soooo soooo boring and no-one actually carries them out anyway, just jokes and singing and dancing – and let everyone vote by phone.  It doesn’t matter how many times you vote, the money will help reduce the deficit….hahaha.