There are only so many times you can commend the Anglo-Saxon world, Anglo-Saxon values and Anglo-Saxon people before you start to sound, erm, “extreme”. But that’s not going to stop Rupert Lowe!

Nigel Farage is a nasty piece of work, but he at least tries to conceal his bigotry under enough of that “straight-talking everyman” shtick that you can just about understand how a disenfranchised or impressionable voter might be manipulated – and that is precisely what makes him dangerous. Lowe, on the other hand, the multimillionaire MP for Great Yarmouth and leader of Restore Britain, is so unashamedly hard-right that it is preposterous to imagine that anyone with such an unserious preoccupation with the idea that “Muslims don’t like dogs” poses a legitimate political threat.

No, as I discovered while suffering through Lowe’s two-hour appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, during which he must have mentioned it at least three times, Muslims don’t like dogs because Mohammed preferred cats. Gravely concerning. Did you know Muslims also destroyed Lebanon, once a thriving Christian country with great wine? That in “Islamic society” – where? Doesn’t matter, all the same, but probably Pakistan – women are second-class citizens forced to live a life of servitude and lick the feet of men? That these practices are tolerated within Britain, which is turning a blind eye to Sharia law?