"Just the man for the job.

"Quote: 'If gay marriage was OK -- and I was uncertain on the issue -- then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.'

"Quote, after the London terror strikes of 7/7: 'It is time to reassert British values. That means disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam. Islam is the problem. To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia -- fear of Islam -- seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke.'

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Quote, on the city of Portsmouth: 'One of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement, and Labour MPs."