Heffer's back!

As I predicted when he left the Torygraph, Heffer is back at the Daily Mail where no doubt he will remain until the editor at the DT is replaced. He is somewhat more subdued than he was previously so perhaps the megalomaniac who runs the Daily Wail has told him to tone it down a bit.

Unfortunately, this means that he is less than entertaining than of yore. I used to look forward to a good Heffer rant twice a week.

It also looks as if he is called upon to perform six days a week.

In advance of the Tory Party conference, he is calling upon Dave to start acting like a Tory. In particular, he wants Dave to move ahead on Scottish independence (fat chance, Simon – the canny Scots will never get off their English gravy-train), a referendum every time there is an EU treaty change (under existing law this is available but not automatic), repatriation of the Common Agricultural policy (I think he means ‘scrapping’) and repatriation of powers over employment, social policy, the environment, and health and safety.

Simon joins Quentin Letts, the best of the Parliamentary sketch writers; Tom Utley whose father was the great Peter Utley on the Torygraph; and the outrageous Richard Littlejohn as the big hitters at the paper.

So there it is; hold your nose, go to Mail Online and enjoy.