We could almost be back in the San Francisco of the 1960s. Tune in, turn on, drop out. Make love not war. A hippy counterculture that turned its back on the American involvement in Vietnam. One determined to shape a new world order.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to today and we have one MP who is hellbent on making 2026 the summer of sex<\/a>. One who wants to focus politicians\u2019 attention on the joys of the orgasm. To return to the simpler pleasures of life. Though without the need for everyone to take acid. The world is hallucinogenic enough. And who\u2019s to say she\u2019s wrong?<\/p>\n Maybe if Donald and Melania Trump were to do it more \u2013 I\u2019m sorry to put that thought in your head; once there, it\u2019s not easily erased \u2013 then the US president wouldn\u2019t have declared war on Iran and the pope. He might have been more chilled. You know what? I can give those cruise missiles a miss today. Nigel Farage, too. He might not have it in for immigrants quite so much. Though you can\u2019t quite eliminate the possibility that maybe Nigel gets turned on by small-boat videos.<\/p>\n The woman who has dreamed this one up is the Labour<\/a> MP for South Derbyshire, Samantha Niblett. An unfortunate example of nominative determinism. Samantha was first elected in 2024 and is a stalwart of the Blue Labour wing of the party. A wing she appears determined to make a whole lot bluer. Very Blue Labour. When it came to the vote on means-testing winter fuel payments for pensioners, Sam was all in favour. Presumably, she expects old people to snuggle down under the duvet to enjoy some carnal pleasures. Good for the soul, great for the heart rate. Warm in body and mind. Keep the radiator turned off.<\/p>\n Now, you might have thought politicians were the last people who needed educating on the joy of sex. After all, MPs have a terrible track record on this. Sometimes it seems easier to find one who isn\u2019t rumoured to be having an affair. Some would definitely benefit from a spot of abstinence. Boris Johnson \u2013 AKA the Sperminator \u2013 was a case in point. Infidelity appeared to be hardwired into his psyche for much of his life. It was almost as though he only had to look at a woman to get her pregnant. Even now, we aren\u2019t entirely clear how many children he has. It\u2019s possible even he doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n And then there\u2019s the porn in parliament. One laptop found in the office of the former Tory cabinet minister Damian Green had thousands of images of legal porn on its hard drive. Green denied having any knowledge of how the pictures got there. As did everyone in his office. So maybe there\u2019s something in the Westminster ether that makes porn download itself to people\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n Stranger things have happened. Like the time the former Tory MP Neil Parish was trying to access a tractor website and found himself watching hardcore porn in the Commons chamber. And somehow kept watching it. Just hoping that sooner or later he would come to a muckspreader. A word to the wise. Never type \u201cMassey Ferguson\u201d into a Google search while you\u2019re at work.<\/p>\n