Failure to hold him to account?
So let’s imagine Damian Green wasn’t our Prime Minister’s deputy and her closest pal in politics.
Let’s imagine he’s Damian Green from accounts at your work. Bit of an oddball, best avoided at the Christmas party, but generally keeps himself to himself.
Oh... but then you discover the cops came in a few years back, seized his computer and discovered ‘extreme porn’ on it. (Damian denies it even though an Assistant Commissioner with more than 30 years’ service and a Queen’s Police Medal says it’s there and sends it to the CPS to take a look at).
Then it turns out Damian from accounts has been touching the knee of a colleague 30 years younger than him and sending her a suggestive text message.
“How is he still in a job?” you might ask yourself.
Except in the real world he wouldn’t be in a job. Because in the real world, the police – or certainly the employer – wouldn’t have quietly dropped an inquiry into computer porn.
And there would have been immediate and brutal disciplinary hearings about the sexual behaviour.
Back in the Westminster world the real Damian Green remains the second most powerful person in Britain and our PM’s most trusted adviser.
And that really is perverted.