Anjem Choudary, the hate-preacher and probable radicalising all-round horrible person, wants to go to ISIS. Not, as he claims, to ‘participate in terrorist acts’, but merely to live his dream of being in a Sharia state. Fine by me. I’ll start a whip-round for his ticket today. The man is pure evil and obviously belongs in a place where bombings occur nightly, if you survive the gunfire during the day. But there’s a problem. The government has confiscated his passport, so he can’t travel. So along with the whip-round, I’m starting to ‘let Anjem go’ campaign in tandem so this poor man can get his passport back so he can go to the Islamic State. Where he definitely belongs. What is wrong with this government? One evil fucker less, even a British one, within these shores, is good by me. And if the fact that he is a jihadist, make-Britain-sharia piece of vermin, if that’s not enough to deport him, the man’s a lawyer too. Some people plumb the depths.

Whilst others start from a higher point and manage to descend, all by themselves. Like Ed Miliband. Poor, hapless, hopeless leader of a Labour Party that hate him, have no confidence in him and would like to replace him but even in a party so full of ‘rock stars’ (phah) its only 6 months before a general election so timing would seem against them. And who do you elevate, even if you could which, under Labour rules, is so impossible they couldn’t even get rid of Gordon Brown without threatening him with death unless he resigned.

But what do you look for in a ‘leader’. Other than, perhaps, some leadership skills which Ed M seems to be so distanced from? They were debating this on the radio as I came home from Tai Chi this morning. With David (tosspot) Mellor (conservative party) saying that Miliband is a hapless nob, and Ken (asswipe) Livingstone (very very old Labour party) saying that Ed is just fine. Why? Because he’s not interested in what people think of him, only that they accept his ‘vision of the future’. Which unfortunately changes with such regularity that by the time they’ve written a manifesto its out of date. Ed doesn’t need to look good, sound good or even be any bloody good, according to Ken, who can empathise with all three of those missing traits. He just needs to have a clear view.

And this is true. If you’re a 70 year-old has-been communist with a whiny voice. But politics must change to reflect and appeal to the changes in society. A society which now demands a more youthful, vibrant leader who is media savvy, who makes the right noises and, most important, who instils confidence. Ed doesn’t tick too many of those boxes either. The ‘young’ of this fair nation spend their time in a digitalised world obsessed with image and soundbytes. A world where celebrity is revered. So surely even if leadership skills and a degree of engagement were not natural, the ability to act that way would be of benefit? Like David Cameron??

Maybe they should make Anjem Choudary the labour leader. At least he has a plan. Albeit a fairly abhorent one.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx