Blue Labour gets bluer with MP’s noble quest for a summer of sex | John Crace

Samantha Niblett says her campaign is about ‘taking control of our Britishness’ – bring on the union jack dildos 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. Fast forward to today and we have one MP who is hellbent on making 2026 the summer of sex. One who wants to focus politicians’ 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’s to say she’s wrong? Maybe if Donald and Melania Trump were to do it more – I’m sorry to put that thought in your head; once there, it’s not easily erased – then the US president wouldn’t 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’t quite eliminate the possibility that maybe Nigel gets turned on by small-boat videos. The woman who has dreamed t