[ggm]

Wait, you mean the minister for telecommunications had to do BGP? The guy doing Ag. Needed to operate a corn header? What does this mean for the lord privy seal who is neither a lord, nor a privy nor a seal?

The minister is expected to have competent advice. As some stage a photo opportunity will emerge. And like Margaret Thatcher they will be photographed driving a tank with helmet and googles, despite not actually being a licenced tank driver.

"The minister for sex education has never had.."

[belter]

All those might be true. Just don't stop there. What actual competencies are then required to be the minister of something? ;-)

[ggm]

Yes minister was not fiction!