OK - here's another politician who wasn't an idiot...
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-66025111
Conservative MP for Blackpool - about 15 miles from where I grew up. Simultaneously, an MI6 agent working in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
Even better, a dab hand at impersonations.
"He later became increasingly estranged from the Tories after failing to make the party's shortlist for Lancaster and Wyre seat in 2001 and a year later, he joined the Liberal Democrats.
In 2015, he co-founded the Northern Party to campaign for better representation for Northern England at that year's general election, standing and finishing last in the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency."
The Northern Party sound like my kind of people. I generally finish last, too.
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