AS CONSERVATIVE member for Eddisbury, the room Julian Cook Zooms in is full of perfectly ordinary Union Jacks and busts of Churchill. Stuff like this:
Flagpole
Every ordinary, average, patriotic Briton’s home has at least one freestanding flagpole to bear the Union Jack whose fabric they finger while remembering the sacrifices made by previous generations. It’s as normal as a sofa or television. I have one in every room, including the downstairs toilet where I think of Dunkirk, and five in the bedroom.
Portrait of the Queen
I love the Queen, and not just because she appears on money. I love her regal grandeur, her country estates, her vast private income and her resolute refusal to ever express any political view. More women should follow that example. There are so many portraits of her it’s Bolshevik obstinacy not to display at least five.
Shelves of serious books
None of your fiction. That’s for frivolous liberals who believe we should support ‘the arts’. Instead, like the average Stoke-on-Trent Brexit-backing Conservative voter, I keep biographies of Nixon, Thatcher, and General Pinochet on the shelves behind me. Political figures who unite.
Red phone box full of Spitfire parts
There is nothing in the least odd about keeping a red telephone box containing a Spitfire nosecone, an oil pressure gauge from a Lancaster bomber and the Luger my great-uncle took off a dead Jerry at Montecassino in my home. It would be strange and communist if I didn’t.
Lego model of Big Ben
Lego is a hobby many Britons enjoy, and I personally chose to build Big Ben because I love my country, unlike ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer. As you can see I have used Lego men to recreate the famous sequence where James Bond hangs from the clock’s minute hand. I play with them sometimes and do the voices.
Secret door in bookcase revealing room full of Nazi memorabilia
I don’t have this, and when it swung open behind me and my nine-year-old swaggered out wearing a vintage Hitlerjugend uniform, that was just a malfunctioning Zoom background. I was hacked.
