Bear with me on this. If you’re reading this blog it means you’re either someone who knows me personally and suffers my output on the off chance I ask the hated, “Hey, did you see that post I wrote about…” question.

The other kind of person is actually pretty special, and it’s you I want to write about as a vaguely long-winded way of arriving at the following conclusion: Andrew Neil is a dinosaur.

Dick Puddlecote says I’m wrong about that, that Andrew Neil is the cutting edge. Needless to say this cannot stand… oh yes, it’s an ARGUMENT! Woo! I’m already starting to get high on the buzz of an new argument – that beautiful first few moments where ideas and arguments explode, then the joy and satisfaction as the dross is whittled away, then what remains is organised, tested then sculpted into some sort of pleasing arrangement of words, then finally subjecting those words to the scrutiny of wiser, cleverer, less excitable minds.

See, I’m hopelessly hooked on this. But then what are you, you who finds yourself reading this? Just what brought you to a stage in your life where you amuse yourself by reading non-linear, unending pamphlets by online nutters?

Okay so, look: The good news is you’re not alone. There’s bloody loads of you, although you’re a very, very special niche of the overall ‘loads’ that read the collected work of online political nuttery. Good for you! But together, whether we’re awesome libertarians, not quite so awesome but still vaguely okay liberals and conservatives we’re a sort of gang, you see.

There’s only a handful of bloggers, but, and I say this again, there’s bloody loads of you. Hundreds of thousands of you, and you’re all getting your politics uncensored, unregulated and written by real human beings.

This gang of ours is a whole new emerging subculture… we’re the “People Who Are Into Politics.” We spontaneously emerged without anyone actually noticing.

So are we going to the BBC and their Daily Politics Show and their This Week and their Question Time to discover the latest in the ongoing battle between Labour and the Tories?

Nope: the BBC’s political output is aimed at people who aren’t interested in politics, and in apologising for itself and trying to make itself understandable it becomes even more tedious until eventually the only people left watching are.. well… us… and we’re tearing our hair out at the sheer cringingly artificial awfulness of it.

At least I am.

Which, I think, is why Andrew Neil is a dinosaur. You young hip kids have discovered rock and roll while the BBC has a strict ‘jazz only’ policy, and the God  of embarrassed, apologetic, patronising, dumbed down, sanitised, simplified to the point of cretinism political television is Andrew “I’m a flipping Dinosaur” Neil.

It’s just no-one’s noticed yet, that’s all. Like no-one’s really noticed how you and the rest of the gang would actually be terrifyingly powerful if anyone could figure out a way of brainwashing you into going out knocking on doors and delivering leaflets and telling all your friends about this site or this book they MUST read, you know?

Lucky for us all, I say. I hate delivering leaflets. Sure I’m into politics but, strewth, there’s limits.