Chairman Mao made a ritual of swiming the Yangtze every year, it would be appropriate and uplifting if Chairman Parker could swim the Irish Sea to the TT this year.
I am sure he would receive an appropriate welcome on the Douglas promenade.
There would be no fear of him drowning as he could float to the surface like a Richard the Third, puffed up with self importance and buoyed with his Dickensian puffery.