Promoted beyond their ability

If I were to apply for a new joh *wink"

I would have to show why I thought I was suitable, prove experience, professional qualifications, exam results, work history and more. And yet, a Prime Minister can promote any MP into a Ministerial post whether they were a worl-leading expert in that field, or Liz Truss.

Liz Truss.

Liz. Lizzie. Our Liz is, *checks notes*, is fucking Foreign Secretary.

Fuck.

She took her interlect to Moscow to be part of the West's push against Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Yes.

Really.

She had a meeting with Sergei Lavrov, PUtin's top diplomat, and she was left rather embarassed at her singular lack of preparation and knowledge.

After the talks, Lavrov said, and it's worth quoting all of it: ‘I’m honestly disappointed that what we have is a conversation between a dumb and a deaf person."

"It seems like we listen but don’t hear. At least, our most detailed explanations fell on unprepared soil.

‘They say Russia is waiting until the ground freezes like a stone so its tanks can easily cross into Ukrainian territory.

‘I think the ground was like that today with our British colleagues, from which numerous facts that we produced bounced off."

Earlier, he asked Truss: " Do you recognise the sovereignty of Russia over the Rostov and Voronezh regions?

She replied: "Great Britain will never recognise Russan sovereignty over those regions."

The British ambassador had to expain to Truss that those regions were in fact part of Russia.

For Truss it was just a photo op; shots of her looking confused in Red Square in fur coat and hat have amused locals with temperatures well above freezing.