To the inspiring, popular Labour socialist republican Dennis Skinner they are “little monsters” who stick a respectable face on deadly ogres such as poverty, inequality and unfairness.
It is a huge pity the Beast of Bolsover isn’t in Parliament to expose, attack and condemn the exorbitant, grotesque £250 million orgy of deference, when new king Charles the Unwanted demands servitude from the great unwashed.
Skinner would be unbowed, a champion of the people who’d find a way to speak out – as he did at Queen’s Speeches with a quip about tax or Helen Mirren.
