My and has the wheels come off the wagon this year, the many political numbskulls, useful idiots and many failing upward midwits that seem to fill much of the senior Civil Service just won't recognise or refuse to accept this is the case... To this day, Jolly remains, as former councillor John Byford put it, the 'A-list celeb' of Skegness and a statue honouring the county's most famous fisherman can be found by the coast as a constant reminder of his work to put the town on the map. The book by David Goodhart "The Road To Somewhere" details much of the differences between the some-where's and the any-where's. The any- somewhere's which I believe are a mix that unites both conservative and labour voters is often derided as the uneducated, by the enemies of nation states and their useful idiots. The reality of Skegness has eclipsed all my anticipations," he reportedly said. "It is even more bracing and attractive than I had been led to expect."

While it can be said that 'Nations are inventions', I would contend that those that ignore the history of why the nation state exists and its importance in maintaining a decent society, are the intellectual pygmies that fit the anywhere profile.

I figured the worst possible outcome was death, which didn't seem so bad compared with continuing on to Skegness."

Voicing his opinion on Good Morning Britain, he said: "The Jolly Fisherman brought pleasure to millions and everybody was happy to see him and he basically cheered everybody up a bit. Later on, he wrote: "I was so half mad with boredom that I began to fantasise about trying to jump the car over the roadside ditch and see if I could land upright in a potato field.Renowned illustrator John Hassall in his studio, 1909 (Image: Lafayette photography studio - Victoria and Albert Museum, Lafayette archive, creative commons 4.0) When John Hassall drew the iconic picture of a buoyant fisherman skipping along Skegness Beach in 1908, neither he nor those in the now popular seaside town, would have envisaged the longevity of that poster.