Well this is awkward.
John Cleese just endorsed Rupert Lowe by calling him the politician he “trusts most since Paddy Ashdown.”
Cleese was a big Lib Dem donor and backed Lib dem leader Ashdown as he planned a coalition government with Blair in the run up to 1997, including the raft of constitutional changes Blair enacted that ended up wrecking Britain.
In the end, Blair didn’t need him, having won a big majority, but Ashdown was a critical part of Blair’s plan to fundamentally transform Britain for the worse.
Ashdown campaigned alongside the communist-linked CND, backed Obama and the war in Syria, and campaigned to remain in the EU.
And that’s who Cleese is comparing with Lowe.
Also fun to note that Cleese turned down a peerage from Ashdown because “I realised this involved being in England in the winter and I thought that was too much of a price to pay."
Very patriotic 🤔