He reported the weakness of the British Establishment when faced by Hitler.
The Shadow Home Secretary lacks the tabloid news sense needed to decide which of the Government’s many failings to highlight.
It seems the demand for a certain type of bully in Britain has obviously outstripped supply, and influential figures and organisations must now conjure them up in an attempt to exaggerate their own victimhood.
Still less are civil servants paid to do so rather than getting on with the job – which taxpayers fund.