Please Explain

Peter Hitchens would like to know:

What is it about Theresa May? She is walking proof that nothing succeeds like failure.

 

She is herself a militant, politically correct liberal, oddly reluctant to admit she went to a grammar school.

 

Crime is out of control, inefficiently concealed by fiddled figures. Immigration is out of control, a fact that can’t be concealed.

 

She can’t even organise a public inquiry.

 

Yet her media sycophants portray her as a steely guardian of the State, and a potential premier. I ask you.

 

Here’s another conundrum.

 

A party leader is losing by-elections, is hopelessly low in the polls (as he has been for years), is daily exposed as having no serious policy on the EU (the biggest issue that faces him), recently nearly lost Scotland and slighted the Queen, and is directly personally responsible (thanks to his attack on Libya) for one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of modern times.

 

And yet he is treated with continuing respect, while his rival (whose problems are small by comparison) is constantly smeared in the newspapers and on the BBC as being ‘not up to the job’ and under threat.

 

Please explain. I can’t.