Remember ministerial responsibility? No me neither.
It has always been an urban myth and a rosey eyed view of our constitutional history that at some golden era in the past, upright, decent and honourable Victorian ministers threw themselves on their swords every time a junior clerk made a spelling mistake.
The cabinet would have had to be re-stocked every morning as the corpses where trundled out the ministries’ doors.
But there was a time when ministers were held to account if a serious fault was down to a political decision made at the very top, although it seems to have died out a very long time ago.
Now the Education Secretary who runs an education system where 5% of all schools are death traps wants to be praised for getting off her arse.
Meanwhile Daniel Khalife is still on the run, having easily escaped from HMP Wandsworth when he should have been in a high security prison designed to keep potential enemies of the state locked up.
Lack of spending, prison overcrowding, and conditions so bad the German courts won’t extradite suspects are the root cause and all come down to ministerial decisions.
Hopefully Mr. Khalife will be captured soon and will face a fair trial, although we do have to consider the option that he will soon appear on Tehran TV. Introduced no doubt by the music from the Great Escape or the James Bond theme tune.
At which point the Home Secretary will, I am sure, tell the House of Commons she is sure that her extradition request to the Iranian regime will be a success and MPs will just have to wait to see the outcome.
Or maybe she too will expect praise for having got off her arse.
A principled resignation or sacking would naturally be a gross injustice and far too much to expect.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media