PM calls on Home and Foreign Offices to further promote his government of all the talentless
For obvious reasons it has been coronavirus and Brexit that have been dominating the news agenda in recent months. But No 10 has been getting concerned that the public might be under the impression that it is just the Department of Health and Social Care and the Brexit negotiating wing of the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster that are incompetent. So to promote the idea that he is running a government of all the talentless, Boris Johnson is now keen to make clear that the Home Office and the Foreign Office are capable of being equally clueless.
This week we learned that the Home Office had come up with proposals to set up an asylum seeker detention centre on Ascension Island. Worried that people might think sending people by boat to the south Atlantic was actually a sensible idea, the government hastily leaked a whole load of other even more stupid ideas that were being considered.
