Didn't Matthew Goodwin have a terrible time the day he went to London?

Pity poor Matthew Goodwin, the former academic turned hard right provocateur, who last weekend had a day trip to London and had a torrid old time.

Goodwin took to social media to list all the miseries which befell him, largely due to foreigners, from a man on his outbound train (“I think from India”) who had a loud Facetime call to another who intervened to stop him offering his seat on the Tube to a woman (“He was not from the UK”).

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Poor old Matthew was also charged £8 for a pint, was asked for money by homeless people three times, “had dinner in a neighbourhood where the average rent is £3,663 per month” and bought a tin of instant coffee with a security tag on it.

“London is over – it’s so over,” he moaned. “I’ve been coming in and out of London since 1981. I simply cannot remember a time when it’s been this visibly dire and when so many things just do not work as they should.”

Chances are he simply cannot remember many of those early trips full stop, since he was born in, er, 1981.