Now Jezza can Trump Theresa

BUSINESS Secretary Greg Clark hasn’t met Sir Philip Green yet over BHS. Hoping he’ll become plain Mr Green first, eh Greg? No wonder May scorns early election

FORGIVE me for the deja vu, but today’s column features one I made earlier. On September 25 I wrote: “Voters around the world have gone a bit bonkers. So if that chump Donald Trump becomes US President I’ll begin to believe Corbyn could be the UK’s PM.” As the nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue begins, Jeremy’s dream of No10 is a step nearer. His staffers don’t like me comparing their boss to Trump. Their politics are an Atlantic Ocean apart, but their circumstances are similar. Trump has never held public office. Corbyn has never held ministerial office. Ex- Prez Bill Clinton said: “When people feel they’ve been shafted they just want t he maddest person in the room to represent them.” He could have been describing Trump but he was t al king about Corbers. We have entered the age of the political outsider, the untrained, untried and untested amateur triumphing over professionals.

It stems from a feeling today’s politicians are professional.

That they’ve not done real jobs, so they understand little of real life.

But would you think your GP a better doctor had he first been a coal miner?

Or a motor mechanic more qualified to repair your car had she previously worked as an English Lit professor?

I would rather trust a bank manager with my money who came up through the ranks of bank clerks than one who’d practised as a tantric sex therapist instead.

Governing is also a professional business requiring an apprenticeship and work experience to learn the special skills needed to cope with unexpected crises.

Jobs held before becoming career politicians rarely equip them for what they encounter.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon wasn’t a soldier but ran children’s nurseries. Education Secretary Justine Greening wasn’t a teacher but an accountant. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wasn’t a doctor but a marmalade salesman.

They get to run huge Whitehall departments because they become Cabinet ministers having first learned the ropes as junior ministers.

Democracy has not yet had the chance to reject Theresa May as it did Hillary Clinton. No wonder our unelected PM isn’t keen on an early election.

On present form, Corbs would trump her.