I think thats right Jim, Javid has seen Trump sending troops to the Mexican border, and think that this plays right with the sewer press and their readers. Maybe he is right, but it is the lowest form of politics. Meanwhile Williamson thinks that British Standing in the world can be restored by constructing more military bases. Standing with whom, exactly?

As others have said, it is a far right coup, appealing to the basest of emotions in the same way that Mosley and Powell did.

Sadly, my Irish ancestry is two generations too far back to give me the right of an Irish passport. Otherwise my application would have been in some time ago.