Where did Lulu, Paul Daniels, Eric Sykes and all the Tory celebrities go?

were “back where they belong”.

Entertainers are essentially businesses. They are entrepreneurs; low taxes benefit them. Furthermore, the Right-wing celebrities who filled the industry in the second half of the 20th century had experienced the alternative. In the decades preceding Thatcher, strikes across TV were commonplace. Producers would suddenly find themselves, halfway through filming, negotiating with a heavily unionised, militant crew. The lights went out; the show did not.

Perhaps our current crop of Leftwing celebrity Remainers don’t know their history. Perhaps they don’t care about history. Perhaps they’re just trying to impress their peers.

In an era of “luxury communism” (the hard Left seem to think bolting on the word “luxury” somehow makes communism less dreadful) the collective is everything. The problem is that this is a complete anathema to creativity. Simply google “Soviet Art”: it’s cold, brutal, conformist. When everybody thinks, or is forced to think, the same, a country’s cultural breadth diminishes and freedom of thought turns to thoughts of freedom.

It’s this desire to be free which drove our decision to leave the European Union. Normal, ordinary, decent people do not want to be lectured and told what to do, by Guy Verhofstadt or Gary Lineker.

Maybe we can take comfort from the fact that Left-wing celebrities’ views are largely ignored – if they weren’t, we’d currently be living under a socialist government led by Eddie Izzard. However, I can’t be the only person who’d appreciate a little more circumspection from those whose job it is to entertain us but who keep seeking to politically instruct.