I’M voting with my teeth next time I get the chance.

Not being a gambler or a statistician or expert in probability, I’m at a loss when given the choice: ‘a rot canal’ oh Freudian type!, ‘a root canal will cost about £950 if you have it done by a specialist with specialist equipment and £65 if it’s done here.’

In other words, NHS dentistry is a very poor second to what not many people can afford in a private healthcare setting unless it’s just fillings and check-ups you need.

As my last experience of a root canal cost a grand but included the collection of my favourite anecdote ‘what’s the worst thing a dentist could say to you while operating?’

Answer ‘whoops’, I decide to go for the £65 option.

I like my dentist, she explained things well and putting oral health on a credit card should not be a serious option.

Also, and this will sound weird, how can dentists learn to do tricky things if they don’t ever get the chance to learn.

At my age, when I have fewer mouthy years ahead of me than behind me, I am happy about the risk of less swanky equipment (especially if she doesn’t drop any of it down my throat!).

The risk of public life and being mobbed by fanatics is all over the papers after Labour Leader Keir Starmer MP was surrounded on February 7 by people screaming ‘paedophile’ at him.

The risk of being injured or killed by random strangers is a psychological burden that all figures in public life face every time they take the tube, walk down the street, meet the public.

In 2016, the Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the street in daylight by a white supremacist who was likely stirred up by online extremism and the organisation Britain First’s repulsive rhetoric.

Her killer was heard shouting ‘Britain First’ as he stabbed her.

This recent public attack on Keir Starmer comes just days after PM Boris Johnson yelled in the House of Commons (where he cannot be sued) that Keir Starmer ‘spent most of his time (as Director of Public Prosecutions) prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile.’

Boris Johnson’s false slur thereby connected Keir Starmer with responsibility for Jimmy Saville’s crimes in the poisoned minds of activists who then took to the streets to confront him.

Politics aside, for me, this latest example of shabby lying thuggery by our PM is the most depressing.

It’s an act of incitement. The attack on Keir Starmer is proof of what happens when you whip up the unhinged mob.

I can see why Johnson’s close advisor of many years Munira Mirza resigned citing his ‘scurrilous’ accusation of Keir Starmer as the reason.

By saying what he did, this once great country’s Prime Minister, in the year of our Queen’s 70 years on the throne, might as well be spraying ‘paedo’ in the dead of night on Keir Starmer’s front door to gain political advantage.

While I suspect there are many Tory MPs who’d happily bring the paint cans and brushes, thankfully there are still a few who have integrity and are as horrified as I am – I just hope they put their pens where their principles are and take action to get rid of Boris Johnson soon.

Come on MPs Mel Stride and Anne Marie Morris, do something.

Send in a letter of no confidence if you haven’t already - your friend Boris Johnson is dangerous to life.