A chap, looking not unlike Daniel Hannan but probably not, asked me if I wanted to discuss Fascist politics. It was a novel conversation opener and I'm afraid I simply demurred, saying "I don't think so".
I'd seen him earlier and noted his badge of crossed Union Jack and Cross of St George (flags of UK & England) which made me wonder. But in hindsight I think I should have been amazed that the right wing are so confident to be chatting people up in pubs. keep to the Fen Causeway
Frequently it takes the form of an irrelevant parenthetical comment. "My wife? Oh, I met her back in the late 1970s when Carter, the worst president ever, was in office. We dated for a while and then decided to move in together..."
Or "How dare you point out that snopes.com says that my example of the school answering machine message that shows how teachers really think was actually part of a political smear campaign? I'm not going to be your Facebook friend any more."
