I have recently expressed admiration for Bob Crow and for his plain speaking on Question Time, but I should make it clear that I do not share his party politics. I am a centre-leftist – he is an extreme leftist. He is Eurosceptic – I most emphatically am not.
I still feel that he is prepared to say many things that need saying on the media, and that an independent England will need men like him, but I hope when that day comes he is part of a centre left government and England is a committed member of the European Union, as Scotland will undoubtedly be.