Lord Jonathan Sumption, retired Supreme Court judge and all round good egg, says that in his opinion* “you have to go back to the early 1930s to find a British Cabinet as devoid of talent as this one.”  He places, to coin a phrase, disappropbrium on the head of the Flatulent Leader as follows: “The Prime Minister, who in practice makes most of the decisions, has low political cunning but no governmental skills whatever. He is incapable of studying a complex problem in depth. He thinks as he speaks – in slogans.”   Such  ill-government has consequences, which follow inevitably as night follows day, “These people have no idea what they are doing, because they are unable to think about more than one thing at a time or to look further ahead than the end of their noses. Yet they wield awesome power. They are destroying our economy, our cultural life and our children’s education in a fit of absent-mindedness.”

Well, I beg to differ.  It may be that the Flatulent One has no idea of the disaster he is setting in flow, but there are those who do: those to whom he is beholden.  I think Lord Sumption may be correct in thinking that those in high office are dullards, who do not appreciate the ‘catastrophe’ they have let loose, but there are those behind them who do, absolutely.  Whether that is our country’s political and diplomatic enemies, or whether it is a shady group of hostile mercenaries (the “fund managers”) to whom I have alluded in the past, or, quite possibly, both is a matter for conjecture.  But I suspect that the government is dancing to the tune of some very malign force.

Which raises a question: what constitutional safeguards do we – or any democracy – have when the appointed government ceases to act in the national interest; is, not to put to fine a point on it,  intent on damage of a hitherto unimaginable scale?

• Sumption wrote in the Daily Mail