Boris Johnson

[Protheroe]

Oh, look over there at something from 40 years ago.

That would have a bit more credibility if Dear Margaret had been able to shake off her infatuation with old Augusto and not still be droning on about him at party conferences long after the Tories had woken up to the fact that she had become a bit too bonkers even for their tastes. 

This bit from a conference speech (1999 as it happens) is priceless: "... the small minority of communists who once nearly wrecked the country under Allende will now be encouraged to overturn the prosperous, democratic order that Pinochet and his successors built"

That was prompted by his arrest in response to an extradition warrant. I'm pretty sure she got the 'democratic' bit in the wrong place; probably a typo.

Dear Margaret has Augusto to thank for winning the 1983 election.

Is "Augusto" shorthand for our undemocratic voting system? Because that is the only reason the Tories won a majority in 1983.

Arf. The Losers Charter - if you can't win under the current system, the system needs to be changed.