So the ginger adulterer is dead – one less to put against the wall, come the glorious day! Unfortunately, we still seem to have rather a surfeit of politicians (especially left wing ones), but at least it is a very small step in the right direction.

However, there is nothing like the timely demise of a politician to demonstrate the blatent & rank hypocrisy of our political class.

According to my little Toni

"Robin was an outstanding, extraordinary talent - brilliant, incisive in debate, of incredible skill and persuasive power"

and Tax & Waste Brown

"He will be mourned greatly not only by his family, friends, colleagues and constituents, but in every continent of the world."

or Two Jags Prescott

"This is truly sad and tragic news. Robin was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation.”

Of course what they really wanted to say was the government & their legion of toadies absolutely despised the man for opposing the invasion of Iraq – but then again, Nu Labour have raised being two faced to an art form.

If the ginger adulterer was such a man of integrity, why did he kick out his first wife Margaret after starting a ‘relationship’ with his former Foreign Office secretary Gaynor Regan, whom he married in 1998? But of course, everybody loves you when your dead … apart from Cookie’s first wife – but I am sure that even she has allowed herself a wry smile