6 Replies to “Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill”

  3. Lest we forget – we had from 1997-2010 a junketing, frequent flier, academic research chemist; an advertising executive, union official and foot in mouth expert; a developmental metallurgist and rolling road-block instigator; a credulous policy wonk and slave to Agenda 21 and a Union official and vegetarian.

  4. Filbert, isn’t that the dumbest comment you could make? Given that few if any ministers have actual qualifications in the business of their ministry I’m baffled as to what the problem might be with an academic research chemist, a metallurgist or a vegetarian being put in place to manage the environment. The question is whether the individual appointed has an interest in managing and maintaining the environment, or whether their instinct is to trash it. At least those with scientific qualifications, however remote from environmental issues, will have the ability to properly respect, interpret and analyse data, something that seems to be seriously lacking in both the previous incumbent and his replacement.

  5. “Filbert, isn’t that the dumbest comment you could make? ” – You must be new

    “I’m baffled” – baffled as anyone trying to find relevance in the cartoon

    “The question is whether …” – that has never been the question

    “At least those … will have the ability to properly respect, interpret and analyse data” – but they didn’t, and especially the ones you left out didn’t, nor neither

    “something that seems to be seriously lacking in … the previous incumbent” – he certainly was picky about whose medicine shows to attend

    “and his replacement” – PPE with a mathematical bent. May shine – who knows? May do better than Dopey Davey who has just given the go-ahead for massive damage to chalk downland in a National Park in order to service an offshore array of bird killers. And who kept his job …

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