“Only myself and Tony stayed up all night to see the Tories win in 1983. Rest of the house went to bed after they saw which way it was going. About 5am we took some red paint and wrote up “Now you will see real class war” on the nearest available wall – Canonbury station. And there was. Or at least there was an effective and systematic brutal deconstruction of all and any alternative orderings of society.”

Plus see this remarkable (even by Alistair’s standards) post on The Poll Tax.