Godfrey Bloom

The deliciously Gilbertian, Lord Mucho-Pomposo Turner has retired from one of his more ludicrous benefit societies, the Committee on Climate Change.

Is it possible that Lord Turner's breathtaking advance through the Quangocracy to be become of the UK's wealthiest beneficiaries of tax payer funded salary and pensions, has been based on his extraordinary ability to get things wrong 100% of the time (known as the 'dependable record' by financial economists).

Some of us get something wrong but Turner manages to get absolutely everything wrong. In this respect, the noble Lord is even less useful than a stopped clock, which at least tells the right time, twice a day. Where will he pop up next? Does one suppose he and Will Hutton go on walking tours together to discuss how they can remain as the most absurd figures in modern Britain.