Now Teribus. Until 2010 Richmond was a solid LibDem seat. There is a very large LibDem contingent among the Richmond electorate. Richmond voted overwhelmingly to remain (are you following so far?). The LibDems' policy is to oppose Brexit (keeping up, are we?). Now let's get just a tad more imaginative. Zac Goldsmith is a Eurosceptic right-wing Tory. Zac tried to make a Big Thing of the runway by resigning and making it a by-election issue. But he couldn't do that because the other candidates WERE JUST AS AGAINST IT AS HE WAS, AND, MOREOVER, WERE NOT BREXITEERS NOR HAD THEY SMEARED THE LABOUR CANDIDATE IN THE MAYORAL ELECTION. In other words, he screwed up. Zac did bad things that do not go down well with the liberal-minded and articulate electorate of Richmond. Get it? One big thing has changed since Goldsmith was elected by an overwhelmingly Remain constituency (which didn't matter much then as no-one expected that we should be in the parlous state we're in now). But it matters now.

So.

CANDIDATE ONE: Tory nouveau-riche multimillionaire golden boy, against the EU, bad record of racist comments, anti-runway. CANDIDATE TWO: local woman who understands local issues, LibDem, pro-EU, clean as a whistle, anti-runway. CANDIDATE THREE:   Labour man, should never have stood, in danger of splitting the vote, very decent man, pro-EU, anti-runway. CONSTITUENCY'S ELECTORATE: traditionally liberal, overwhelmingly pro-EU, not stupid, anti-runway.

Do spend a little minute with that lot under your belt working out what happened in Richmond. And Keith does not agree with me. Keith has reopened this thread as part of his bigoted anti-Labour mission. He jumps opportunistically on some remark made by one of the leading lights in the party who wants to undermine Corbyn. Keith is insinuating that Labour's vote collapsed on Richmond because Labour is a bunch of antisemitic twats. Keith has clearly never heard of tactical voting. Keith is clueless and you know it. At least I hope you do. You should by now.