[Tubby Isaacs]

The career railwayman who represents Didcot and Wantage is Olly Glover, but I had to look him up. He could do a decent job for them on his specialism.

I hadn't heard of Mike Martin. He's one you'd think could have been put to work as the Defence spokesman, but I see he's on the Defence Select Committee. Seems like they're missing a trick there. He thinks Defence spending should rise to 3% ASAP, so perhaps that would create an impression they don't want to give of tax rises.

I expect when the manifesto comes out in the next election, Davey will pull some tax rise rabbits out of hats. The trouble with these is that governments have usually thought of them and rejected them as a source of easy money. They can be good politics though, helping you balance (at least on a spreadsheet) spending with taxes. They did that in the last election with capital gains tax reform (extra £5.2bn raised). Have you heard them mention that since? I haven't. Which makes me think they didn't really mean it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston were big losses to the Lib Dems. I noticed that both had similar backgrounds in that they didn't have a background in party politics, and seem to have gravitated to the Tories as the party that people like them supported. In time they found out that people like them were increasingly disenchanted with the Tories, with Brexit being a particularly prominent example of why.

Both good media performers. I miss them.

[Killer Whale]

The Chadwick one in Brecon?

David is his first name, apparently.

His Wikipedia page appears to have been vandalised, since it has this to say about him:

At the age of 19 he was accepted into the Army Intelligence Corps, but had to drop out due to "over-training". He then went to study international studies at Leiden University.

In 2012, he was hit by a car, which split his leg in two, which took 3 months to recover from. When in 2014, he decided to move his studies to Argentina, he had yellow fever vaccination which triggered a rare condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome. This caused him to become "totally paralysed".