Today Jeremy Corbyn appeared to be doing his best impression of that chap at a particularly frothy Prime Minister’s Questions.
All he needed was the blue and yellow hat, and a bit more clarity to what what he was actually talking about.
Theresa May delayed her trip to Brussels to make the session, but many others didn’t bother – with the number of empty seats at this once must watch bout hitting record levels
MPs and hacks alike all noted this was the most sparsely attended duel in living memory.
And who can blame them? It was atrocious.
Mr Corbyn shouted a lot about Brexit, got knocked off his guard by Tory hecklers and Mrs May ducked and dived. No change there.
Even a vaguely forensic questioner could have skewered her on the cusp of her another potentially disastrous showdown with EU leaders, but Mr Corbyn is just not up to it.
He fell back to his script and even that was not much of a fig leaf to hide his utter incompetence.
There was a plan suggested by Labour insiders back when Mr Corbyn was first elected that he would rotate which senior frontbencher took PMQs – perhaps it is time to return to that idea.
It eventually fell to the real leaders of the opposition – ex-Brexit Minister Steve Baker and DUP boss Nigel Dodds – to actually put the PM on the spot on the greatest issue of our time.
But it should not be like this, and until thing improve the numbers of MPs bothering to turn up will continue to dwindle.
SCORE: 0-0. Nobody was a winner today, especially not democratic accountability.
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