Dalrymple points out that the grotesquely incompetent non-entity that is the current British prime minister did not emerge from a social vacuum.
He notes that this mediocrity — this nullity — is typical of the class that has gradually attained power in Britain, from the lowest levels of the administration to the highest.
Theresa May, says Dalrymple, is;
• unoriginal
• vacillating
• humourless
• prey to the latest bad ideas
• intellectually mediocre
• believing in nothing very much
• mistaking obstinacy for strength
• timid but avid for power (avidity for power is not leadership)
• Dalrymple observes that
Thousands of minor Mays populate our institutions, as thousands of minor Blairs did before them.
