Bridge is a wonderful wind up merchant himself. Considering Musket Ian is an ex miner who still has one bottle of champagne left. (Drank one when the bitch finally died and the other cheap plonk is waiting for Scargill to die.) I notice what's left of The NUM are chasing him through the courts again and trying to bankrupt him. Couldn't have happened to a better Trot.

Tell you what. I wish I were two bob behind a solicitor like Bridge... I've never been a Tory for that matter either. 😜

Naw, I swapped Socialism for champagne. Different thing entirely. True, I did believe in the New Labour philosophy when Kinnock set out to make them electable and to this day, I contend that the best way to deliver a social programme is to afford it in the first place. The Blair idea of bypassing and ignoring Parliament and disastrous decisions about The Middle East preclude calling me a Blairite though. (A photo of me shaking hands with him is no longer on display in the study. No ideological reason, just needed the space for photos of my Granddaughter.

If my take on life puts me at odds with a solicitor who carries a cross for those he has sympathy rather than empathy with, I'm cool and happy 😎