Even if a loony believes it himself, you would have to be totally bonkers as a politician to say so. High petrol prices are a 'good thing'.Welcome to the mixed up world of the labour minister who could have been the next Viscount Stansgate if Dad hadn't ditched the title.
Funny-but-in-a-different-sort-of-way to Dad, Hilary Benn the Leeds MP has shown that - he is utterly detached from the normal world the rest of us are forced to inhabit.
I think that Mr Benn Junior has fully earned his Loonytuneswatch coconut. Don't you?
