Step up, Geoffrey Theobald, leader of the Brighton Conservatives. They’re now a minority (sadly not a victimised one) in the council so instead of the usual omnipotent meddling with bollard arrangements that makes up life in power they’re reduced to grabbing headlines with pointless resolutions.

This time round Jeffers has hit on the bright idea of getting the council to condemn Smash EDO’s diabolical plans to disrupt the Diamond Jubilee. In a motion presented on the 22nd, the Tories display their usual heroic disregard for the facts (Smash EDO don’t plan to disrupt the Jubilee, which isn’t happening in Brighton) and demand that the city’s three MPs fire off a ‘cease and desist’ letter to what are basically a bunch of anarchists. Straight to the dustbin of history Theobald, you twat!