Pity TUSC stops at Bristol – Cornwall’s loony Right deserves a fight

In the absence of Monster Raving Loony Party candidates in the General Election, Cornwall will just have to do with the next best things. The Cornish Democrats promise ‘a regionalised version of route destination signs with a Cornish flavour’, declare that membership of the EU is apparently in ‘contravention of Her Majesty’s coronation oath’, believe in ‘Christian-based values’ and will provide us with ‘dubbed versions of Postman Pat to Thunderbirds in Cornish’.  The Taliban would be envious of many of  the party’s manifesto promises. ‘Strong traditional values’. It’s that scary.

Meanwhile UKIP would have us all swear an oath to the Monarchy, celebrate (compulsorily?) the Last Night of the Proms, build 17 nuclear power stations and increase defence spending by 40%, all achieved by massively cutting spending. Oh, and there will be a transfer of land and property back to the Royal Family. I kid you not, and I haven’t even mentioned immigration yet.

And of course there’s Mebyon Kernow.

But why should the bonkers right-of-centre parties have all the fun? The recently launched TUSC party tells us that ‘The working class and peoples of Britain face a ruling class offensive which will intensify over the coming period’, and characterises the occupation of Afghanistan as ‘imperialist’. All of which and more sounds rather pre-Soviet Union meltdown. Pity is, for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition,  the working class stops at Bristol South. If only the party could be persuaded to field candidates this side of the Tamar, the General Election just might grab our interest. And the loony right in Cornwall surely deserves a good scrap. As the brilliant Harry Hill would urge: ‘Fight!’