Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Professor of Hard Sums from the University of Rutland at Belvoir

Something tells me that the old boy was not the greatest supporter of the Liberal Party's alliance with the SDP.

Saturday

So David Steel has left the party. Not before time, if you ask me. Did you know that in the early Eighties (the 1980s, that is) he persuaded the Liberal candidate to stand down in half the seats in the country in the belief that this would see us win a majority. I tried to convince him that this was mathematical nonsense and even got the Professor of Hard Sums from the University of Rutland at Belvoir to Have A Word with him, but all to no avail. Little Steel was not to be gainsayed.

Turning to my complete run of Liberator, I locate the volumes from that era and have a jolly good laugh at his expense.

Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West, 1906-10.

Previously in Lord Bonkers' Diary

Made from the scrotum of the Rutland gazelle

Wearing his wartime gas mask

A particularly amusing item about the Duke of Rutland

A foul-smelling creature of uncertain temper

Above all, Liberal MPs from the 1970s