So how are we going to vote? One way to answer, as I have done here at every election since 1992, is that we should choose the individual candidate we think we could trust most honourably and effectively to represent us, regardless of party. In my case, I would vote Labour in Vauxhall for the independently minded Kate Hoey; in Yardley, Birmingham, for the Lib Dem John Hemming, the only MP who has consistently tried to fight the tragic horror of our corrupted “child protection” system; in North Shropshire for Owen Paterson, a proper, practical Conservative, sacked by Mr Cameron for being the most effective of all his ministers; in South Thanet for Nigel Farage, because it would be good to see what impact he might have on our sadly diminished House of Commons.