I'm neither strongly left or right, but I detest the Liberal Democrats. They are all well-meaning, but they have mostly had little experience of power. The coalition [government] has behaved disgraceful on environmental and energy policies. They haven't done at all well. It would have been much better if they had been properly rightwing. We haven't had one for a long time. I don't mean something like Thatcher; that was a revolutionary Conservative government. Just a regular one. Our political system works because they tend to self-correct each other. What you've got to avoid at all costs is ideologues. Germany is a great country and has always been a natural leader of Europe, and so many great ideas, music, art, etc, come out of it, but they have this fatal flaw that they always fall for an ideologue and Europe has suffered intensely from the last two episodes of that. And it looks to me as if the green ideas they have picked up now could be just as damaging. They are burning lignite now to try and make up for switching off nuclear. They call themselves green, but to me this is utter madness. All ideologues are harmful. They are never right. We get to our stable position through checks and balances. The whole of nature does that through natural selection. Proportional representation is a very bad idea and an absolute gift to ideologues. The problem with ideologues from Marx onwards is that they tend to imagine that human nature is very different from what it actually is. We're still animals and we behave like animals and it doesn't take much to knock our "civilisation" away. People are very, very sensitive about territory and if you move a new lot of people into their territory, they don't like it one bit. Politicians are very stupid if they think they can get away with that sort of thing. You could easily get me to generalise about things that I'm not really competent to talk about, but I do feel that's the case. It's not that people are racist per se. We're naturally racist, you can't get away from it. We try to curb it and be sensible. People are very rarely individually racist, but they don't want a large culture dumped on them. I don't know anyone personally who would be nasty to someone because of their colour or because they come from a different country. It's not in our style in these islands. Monarchy is a very good idea, I think. It means there's no way a politician can dominate. Monarchy ensures that there is someone you can't beat by being a crafty politician.