Suzanne Harrington: Teasock woman's cabinet is full of Roald Dahl characters

People have called the Teasock woman’s hastily assembled cabinet ‘diverse’ because there are differences of skin pigmentation and gender, but 68% of them are privately educated; there’s nothing diverse about wall-to-wall privilege.
Suzanne Harrington: Teasock woman's cabinet is full of Roald Dahl characters

The new business secretary who has responsibility for energy and climate change, likes to describe it as ‘climate alarmism’ even as Pakistan washes away.

Now that we are allowed to go back to something previously known as normal, our heads no longer compulsorily taken up with sombre pageant, we can reflect on who exactly we will be dealing with when it comes to our next door neighbours. Who they have recently elected, having gotten rid of the Latin-spaffing haystack?

It’s the Teasock woman. Elected not by the voting public, but by a few thousand golf club elitists — 0.3% of the UK population — who make up the Tory party membership and couldn’t bear the idea of a brown one (Rishi Sunak was the preferred choice of MPs). 

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