When sensible humane people are made Home Secretary they appear to turn evil and stupid and vicious.
Either a radiation dose to the right side of the brain, or something they put in the tea, is my two best guesses. I mean, I don't like to think that these people were ******s all along and we just didn't notice. You turn into a ****** when you get the job. And after you lose the job, you stay as a ******. I think I'd turn the job down. Or bring a Thermos flask and a tinfoil hat. Maybe not the professional image...
I've wondered whether the job somehow involves talking like a ****** - "prison works" et cetera - when it isn't what you really believe, but then why do they go on being ******s when there's been a reshuffle and the job has been given to some other ******?
Now Foreign Secretary is different. Every country in the world has the same foreign policy, and that is "******** You". So Hillary Clinton is a ****** these days but I believe it's only a professional posture. When President Obama, whom I admire, deals with foreign affairs, he too is a ******, most of the time. A tip of the hat for his efforts in nuclear disarmament. British Foreign Secretaries are also ******s, but not on the inside. The job is to be a ******. They don't take it home with them.
I haven't heard what happened to the new Speaker. Now he had a right ****** standing agtinst him. But, troublingly, the sort of ****** that a lot of ******s will vote for.