When I wrote on yesterday’s blog that having supper with Lord and Lady Rothschild should be fun, I hadn’t quite realised how much fun it would be.

Last night I chaired a meeting of the Henry Jackson Society and Lynn Forester was the speaker. The room was packed and we didn’t even have any standing room left as Lynn rose to speak.

A close friend and supporter of Hilary Clinton during the recent American elections, Lynn changed sides and supported the McCain and Palin ticket once Hilary was knocked out of the race.

She is no fan of Bush, which was apparent by the number of times she mentioned that Bush’s personal rating stood at 15% on polling day. However, regardless of her opinion of Bush, she certainly does not have Obama’s name on her Christmas card list.

This is what makes Lynn fascinating; you just can’t pigeon hole her. On a number of occasions during her talk she referred to ‘Scoop’ Jackson and his bi-partisan approach to politics. A Democrat who inspired the Republicans, she also quoted his line “the best politics is no politics” during her speech. Indeed, the reason why she flipped from Clinton to McCain was because she so admired his desire to reach across the Isle and work with the Democrats on key issues and Bills. Not a quality apparent in Obama

 Lynn obviously felt very strongly that Obama had taken the Democrats way over to the left in order to freeze out Clinton, who she essentially regards as a centrist. She also believes that the American people are fundamentally non-political and ‘centrist’ in their approach to both life in general and politics in specific.

It appears that the Clinton supporters have become ‘Obamacons’ and you couldn’t help get the feeling last night as Lynn took off all of Obamas political clothes and sat him naked in the middle of the room, that she was beginning a one woman fight back on behalf of her friend.

And what a fight back it was. Refreshing, because I don’t know about you, however; I’m becoming slightly nauseated by the Obama worship and lack of scrutiny being applied to his leadership following his razzmatazz election victory.

Lynn believes that we can now join the Obama dots together. Not easy as this man is deliberately evasive. No accident of course as almost everything he says leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy, even thought his words often lack clarity in purpose.

Her dot joining has amounted to a belief that Obama has four main objectives

1   To create a European style-social democracy

2.   Remove the risk of the free market economy and create Government      intervention in sectors from energy to health and banking

3. Subject trade agreements to US labour and environmental standards (protectionism)

4. Redistribute wealth.

She believes that if he succeeds in attaining these four objectives, he will undermine America for generations - probably forever.

I was really taken by a story she told of an American she had recently met who was from Haiti. An immigrant who had arrived in the US with nothing, he had worked hard and saved hard and put his two kids through college who were both doing incredibly well.

Lynn asked him would he, instead of having had to work so hard to elevate his family, have preferred help from the State?

The man replied, “No, for two reasons. The first is that the state doesn’t know what I want and the second is what the state gives me the state can take away”.

So, on the basis of that analogy, if that man is your typical American living the dream then maybe Americans won’t want what Obama gives, will they even notice it has happened? Or will that occur when he takes it away?

In ‘Audacity of Hope’, Obama wrote by way of a criticism of Bush “We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt”.

As President, he inherited a deficit of 3.2% US GDP. Today it stands at 13%.

If Bush was saddling a generation with debt, what is Obama doing?

Lynn went on and on, it was like Obama policy ducks lined up in a firing range and she took out one after another.

Her speech over, she took an un-limited number of tough questions from the floor. I know what that’s like. You wish every question to be the last because you have no control and don’t know what’s coming next. She was totally unfazed and answered each and every question with relish.

The hard part over, I extracted her away from adoring fans and managed to steer her and Evelyn into the dining room where we had supper with Alan Mendoza, a selection of MPs, Lords and journalists.

Dinner was so good. I felt as though we were on the dining room naughty table. We laughed so much and everyone was, in that usual political way, vying to be heard. We had the most massive discussion regarding the relationship between Britain and America. On at least two occasions I had to try desperately in between laughing, gasping for breath and trying to be heard, to get everyone to shhhh a little.

Lady Lynn Forester De Rothschild. You know, I should really hate that name shouldn’t I? Me, from the Liverpool council estate who spent her childhood, youth and early years ridden with mistrust for anyone who as a result of privilege and favour represented in what was my world, the architects of social suppression.

And yet there I was last night, totally captivated by one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the world whose main passion is social justice and equality of opportunity. She was fearless and spoke the truth as she saw it - despite the fact that the rest of America, or indeed the world, are still on a blissful honeymoon with the subject of her analytical appraisal.

I just love that bravery. And yet I imagine there will be some issues that we would differ hugely on. I can imagine Lynn is pro-choice, whereas I want to see a reduction in the upper limit at which abortion takes place and yet I know we could have had that discussion and respected each others views and opinion.

Lynn, I just know you are going to be reading this (I’m laughing as I type!)

You were a blast. I wish there were more brave and outspoken women just like you engaged in politics on both sides of the pond.

Thank you so much for last night and once again thank you to the Henry Jackson Society for bringing such an enigmatic and fascinating speaker to the commons.