UPDATED/The thing is…WHICH little friend?

It’s Chris Cardona we’re talking about, after all. His favourite little friend lives in his trousers, not his weapons cupboard.

That’s what it’s come to – a meme like this about the Minister for the Economy doing the rounds on Facebook, which is where I picked it up. And then they say that whether or not you’re a minister you can do as you please because it’s not liberal to say that ministers should be more careful about where they go, what they do and who they hang about with.

We can rip the Finance Minister’s policies and words to shreds but nobody is ever going to produce or circulate a meme like this about him. It wouldn’t make sense. The last time I saw him out in public, he was eating a really quiet lunch with his wife in a hotel lobby.