Never Mind the Cannibalism

It seems that His Excellency, Her Majesty’s grand mucky-muck in Pyongyang is more than just a twit. He is at the point where he can’t tell the difference between autocracy and pluralism. Via Iain Dale we meet what may be the stupidest man to ever nest in government – he is the exception that manages to prove the rule in the Peter Principle.

In a manner that would have George Orwell spinning in his grave, Hughes describes election day in the totalitarian state as if it were a festival of democracy. Forget the Axis of Evil, forget labour camps, secret police, a nation nearly reduced to starvation only a few years ago. No, it's a veritable Butlins here in the DPRK.

The weather was "warm and sunny for the elections of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly", Hughes gushes.

You might wonder just what it is that the embassy staff in Pyongyang are there for, other than processing papers for non-existent trade and all of those free-wheeling NorKs needing visas to blighty. Odds on, they’re doing absolutely nothing – they are if anything a space-holder for what might someday become a nation with who the rest of the world would want to deal.