What is especially galling is that the government and police are using taxpayers money to fund systems that undermine Britain’s rights and traditions of protest, without the slightest awareness that they are our servants being paid by our money. What a sorry state of affairs! What a disgraceful, unprincipled bunch now occupy the major positions of influence and power in this country!

But you know what really worries me? It is the meagre response of the Conservatives on all these great matters of principle. Apart from damning the affairs of the two Damians, which were about the narrow world of Westminster, there have been no statements or speeches doing the big analysis on the moral catastrophe that is now our government. They must acknowledge the totality of Labour’s corruption, and state that they understand the rights of those who oppose official policy, and will do so under any future Tory government.