Whenever you think the Parliamentary authorities couldn't become more ridiculous, they exceed themselves.
As if it wasn't absurd enough to have the restrictions on protests and so on, they seem to have started cracking down on political literature being allowed into the Houses.
Today I was scheduled to speak at the Young Britons' Foundation event in Committee Room 10, hosted by Greg Hands MP. I took with me a sheaf of TPA leaflets, as you do when speaking to an audience who may want to know more or even join up, and at the request of the event organisers.
But when I eventually got to the security scanners, I was told "You're not allowed those."
"Why not?"
"You're just not. You could throw them everywhere."
And they were confiscated from me.
What a topsy-turvy world we now live in, where someone is forbidden from bringing political materials to a meeting of political activists and MPs in the building at the heart of our politics. Small wonder the public think that Westminster has gone mad - it increasingly seems that it has.
