Apart from out and out criminals, the only people I have utterly despised in my life have been politicians - in particular, those whose liberal idealism has caused inestimable damage to the world in which we live.As high as any on my 'list of scorn' has been that egregious, oily, champagne-socialist, Roy Jenkins.
Until the present batch of incompetents at least, he was the worst Home Secretary ever.
This was also a man more than willing to sell out this nation to Brussels and who gained his venal reward by becoming President of The European Commission.
This was that wretched man who said "If anybody does not want to work in a modern society - they shouldn't have to."
This is the man who said "The permissive society is the civilised society."
'Woy' was an unctuous and brilliant intellectual but with no sense of 'real people' and their hopes and aspirations.
He was a co-founder of the SDP, a party which evolved into the Lib Dems of today - a group which is far and away the worst of today's three major parties.
The damage he left in his smug, self-satisfied wake may never be calculated.
