So here’s how it unfolded.
A week ago, British fascism’s village idiot Paul Golding drove his Britain First ‘battle bus’ around Manchester bearing a banner saying ‘Keir Starmer is a wanker” (Oh, how we laughed!).
He was stopped by Greater Manchester Police for behaviour likely to cause offence, served with a Section 59 order and clearly warned – twice – that of he did it again in the next 12 months , the van would be seized.
So, two days later, with those words still ringing in his ears, he drove it up to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool where, to everyone’s shock and surprise (not really), the police promptly impounded it.
Cue outrage and disbelief from Golding and his partner in crimes against humour, Ashlea Simon.
It was released to him shortly afterwards, after the payment of a fairly sizeable sum, whereupon he promptly repeated the exercise.
This time motoring up to Manchester, where he put his juvenile humour on parade first at the Crest Hotel, scene of recent anti-migrant demonstrations, and then at the Conservative Party conference.
Where, surprise, surprise, especially given that it was the same police force which had issued the original Section 59 warning, the vehicle was again impounded.
And again, we were treated to interminable whines of outrage from Mr Golding. And Ms Simon.
Until this, we regarded UKIP’s Nick Tenconi as the clown prince of British fascism. Now we’re not so sure.
