It started with a message from the ghost of Margaret Thatcher and ended with Lee Anderson speaking to a sparsely-packed room.
For the past three days the UK has hosted its first National Conservatism Conference, drawing together a diverse rabble of conspiracy theorists, culture warriors, Donald Trump fantatics - and Tory MPs.
For three mad days we heard Home Secretary Suella Braverman brazenly plant the seeds of a leadership campaign, while a prominent backbencher blamed "cultural Marxism" for the fact we're not having enough babies.