My flabber was well and truly gasted. Even in these days when nothing really shocks, I still couldn’t quite believe it: Ukip has hired Tommy Robinson as a special adviser.

Incredible. I had no idea Ukip was still going, did you? But they soldier on under a man called Gerard Batten, the closest they could find to someone whose name was an anagram of Battenberg. Ideally they’d like to be led by Victoria Sponge.

Batten has called on the services of Robinson, Facebook’s favourite racist, to give him tips on prison, which Robinson has, shall we say, some first-hand experience of, having been jailed for assault, mortgage fraud and using someone else’s passport.

Robinson’s latest conviction, now being considered by the attorney-general, was for contempt