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Dunning Kruger is well known here, we often identify it.

But this must be one of the most extreme examples.

Rachel Reeves has advertised the post of UK Director of the European Development Bank. As you might expect this is a pretty heavyweight post, with commensurate salary (£183.4k). So you'd expect pretty experienced and talented people to apply.

Like Thérèse Coffey... that's right, the cigar-chompin' incompetent.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... easury-job

She told the Telegraph: “It was an interesting role. I thought I would apply given my experience in government on international work. I have dealt with these sorts of banks before.”

I remind you she was a big supporter of Trussonomics.

If ever there was a crossover between Dunning Kruger and narcissism I think that's it.

(Also weapon-grade entitlement).

Yes, I saw that. Says a lot about expectations vs reality as well. She left government (and parliament) presumably expecting directorships and whatnot to be lined up for her. She thought that her experience in government would see her parachuted into this role. She didn't even make the interview stage. And one can assume that those directorships have somewhat failed to materialise.

Ha fucking ha.

Rachel Reeves has advertised the post of UK Director of the European Development Bank. As you might expect this is a pretty heavyweight post, with commensurate salary (£183.4k). So you'd expect pretty experienced and talented people to apply.

That’s a quasi political job that a former minister like Coffey might be more suited to over a number cruncher. I’d trust the Major, Blair, Brown, May and Starmer governments to make a wise choice. Anyone who served under Truss, Sunak or Johnson shouldn’t be let anywhere these kind of posts if the criterion is merit.

Coffey famously didn't know Kigali was the capital of Rwanda, and thought it was OK to share prescription meds with your mates.

The role may well involve tact and diplomacy - two things she never demonstrated publicly when an MP.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 4:25 pm Coffey famously didn't know Kigali was the capital of Rwanda, and thought it was OK to share prescription meds with your mates.

The role may well involve tact and diplomacy - two things she never demonstrated publicly when an MP.

And a degree of intelligence she has hitherto failed to display. It's not just a political rôle, some knowledge of economics would be good.

Wiki wrote:Coffey ... briefly attended the University of Oxford as an undergraduate student of Somerville College, Oxford in 1989 to study chemistry. However, in 1991 she was required to withdraw from the college on academic grounds, having obtained poor college examination results twice.

Coffey then attended University College London, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree (with upper second class honours) in chemistry in 1993 and later a PhD in chemistry in 1998.

Makes you wonder how rigorous UCL are with Chemistry doctorates. 2nd class BSc doesn't usually lead straight to a PhD...

Asking pore ol' Nige impertinent questions like "Why is a foreign-domiciled dodgy crypto billionaire giving you 'gifts' of millions of pounds?". Yes, it's so unfair. A man's private finances should be a matter best kept between the man and his Kremlin backers.

Te late lamented Peter Cook nailed this in 1979

It is not contested by the defence that enormous sums of money flowed towards them in unusual ways. What happened to that money, we shall never know. But I put it to you, ladies and gentlement of the jury, that there are a number of totally innocent ways in which that £20,000 could have been spent: on two tickets for Evita, a centre court seat at Wimbledon, or Mr Thrope may have decided simply to blow it all on a flutter on the Derby. That is his affair and it is not for us to pry. It will be a sad day for this country when a leading politician cannot spend his election expenses in any way he sees fit.