Strictly Politics comes around every autumn with party conferences, Strictly Come Dancing and Cabinet Shuffling.

Voting should be based solely on performance on the night. Choosing political winners, come the election, should overlook dancing on the platform and decide what might be best for all of us in the long term!

Strictly interviews can be judged on the number of interruptions. Editors should hand a script to interviewees suggesting "Do you mind me answering while you interrupt?". Some interviewers persistently harass their guest until or unless they get the answer they want.

Strictly presentation is another competition continuing all year, which includes regional accents, Monday Mumblers and others we don't understand. Top presenters and interviewers are paid more than the Prime Minister, why don't we put them all in charge? They know the answers better than the questions!

Diversity encourages activism around politics, colour, race and orientation, but non activists are the majority when it comes to voting. Fortunately, tolerance and inclusiveness are important in the British mindset. My ancestors, allegedly, washed up in North Devon from a Spanish shipwreck 435 years ago. If people behave like they belong, we treat them as belonging, though the Geordies and Scouse may worry about a Yorkshireman as Prime Minister.

Inclusion is a worldwide problem which extends well beyond recent preoccupations with colour or sexuality. Currently the Jewish homeland in Israel is a massive issue, coupled with the need for a Palestinian homeland somewhere. A proposal to make Long Island an alternate Jewish homeland, relocating the United Nations and the Vatican to the holy city of Jerusalem, will not get much support. The United States keeps indigenous peoples on "reservations", so the Montaukett Nation and others could claim Long Island by prior right, having lived there long before wealthy Americans discovered "the Hamptons"!

In East Devon we are largely tolerant, inclusive and untouched by this, but the reality is no joke for too many people in the world. It is in our nature to support the underdog but we forget our ancestry. Littleham and Withycombe were the original villages, close enough to the sea to support fishing but far enough back for protection against invaders. Woodbury Castle was the strong point 6,000 years ago, with unparalleled views of the whole coastline protected by earth mounds and ditches, now overgrown with trees.

Desirable cultivation, climate and seafood attracted visitors, and still do! The invaders who were strong enough stayed and took over. The intermarriage of people and their strengths made Devon what it is. The next invaders met stronger and more determined defenders and were denied landing rights. The same happened all around Britain until the final invasion in 1066, nearly a thousand years ago!

Now we accept people from all over, who find our ways different but welcoming, after early confrontations. The mixed racial origins of the present government, ethnic corner shops, English spoken without racial overtones such as American "black speak", but including regional accents and dialects, all unify us after a few generations. The attraction is obvious from the number of migrants. True refugee asylum seekers and migrant workers should be welcome, but the money paid to smugglers and the skills of boat people would be better used to develop their own countries!

We must preserve, promote and export our way of living, remembering it comes from centuries of evolution, not from brilliant statesmanship or overwhelming force.