Some of these comments are so leftfield of normality, one wonders if they have any grasp of a world beyond the tea room.

Arguably, underpinned by a 'tribal' politics, but with increasingly finer-grained distinctions between (hitherto) dominant parties, and where electoral politics is reduced to a game in which winning is disproportionately valued over doing,

I would be grateful...

Brevity is an undervalued virtue.

Not without precedent. Ought to be part of the job specification 😉

That is a rather low bar...

1. Like any good technocrat, he approaches shifting events as singular problems disconnected from broader goals. The definitive manager of a small concern, but lacking the political vision to even think of the required changes 2. Nobody in the current cabinet. My two penneth'.

Perhaps they could both be sacrificed to save the rest of us...

Spot on.

For someone who feels so threatened by 'Islamic culture' and 'sharia law', he spends considerable time sucking up to regimes that practice it...

The chips have grown ever more resentful on his shoulder since colleagues refused to join him for lunch...

I'm sure both are fine folk. It was the call to patriotism, I find so muddleheaded...

Maybe his father refused to identify as a graduate...