Apparently he's having one of his celebrated Marlborough meetings tomorrow. These take the form of a discussion about the international conspiracy to destroy Britain etc.

It's the usual conspiracy-theory bullshit, except that instead of the culprits being the Jews and Freemasons they are now the Germans in general and the Prussians in particular.

The Israelis and Americans (Republicans only - Obama is a Prussian pawn) are the heroes of this fantasy. Ex-Labour Shrimpton claims to be an anti-Cameron Tory, although he has expressed some sympathy for the sort of people who support the BNP.

According to Shrimpton the Prussians were behind the Irish Potato Famine, the Indian Mutiny, 9/11 and just about every other world disaster since time began.

Whenever Shrimpton takes centre stage I hear the white coats flapping.