Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me Steve Richards.

Thanks so much for tuning in.

Yeah, we're in the middle of the summer specials.

And thank you also for the many emails I got in spite of me saying, let's have an email break.

You're too good. Some brilliant emails reflecting on the summer special from last week,

where we plucked from the great library of bonus podcasts in Patreon, one from the Troublemaker

series on Enoch Powell.

And it really got me thinking some of the emails.

There was a brilliant one pointing out that a lot of the troublemakers can't stay in one party.

Enoch Powell being a classic example.

He left the Tories, of course, in February 1974 and joined the

Ulster Unionists, who he stood for in the October 1974 election, never returned to the

Tories. And the emailer brilliantly pointed out that Nigel Farage is another example. He's in

the series of troublemakers on Patreon. Of course, was once a member

of the Tory party, then became leader of UKIP, resigned as leader of UKIP after the Brexit

referendum, couldn't face the consequences, then formed the Brexit party. And on it goes,

that doesn't apply, funny enough, so much to those troublemakers on the left in the series.

Tony Benn remained in the Labour Party, he said with the rise of new Labour.

That, of course, is not a Labour Party.

I'm Labour, they're not.

But, of course, officially, they were all in the same party, and Tony Penn never contemplated leaving.

Robin Cooks in the series, of course, never would have crossed his mind to leave a political

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