... I honestly believed he was one of those parody Tory MPs doing skits on TikTok.
The thought crosses my mind, given the woeful quality of some Tory* MPs, that the people who voted for them are vicious sadists. The voters knew they were inadequates, they knew the candidates would show themselves to be fools and
still they voted them in; simply to see the poor saps suffer in public. That or they're all dyed-in-the wool revolutionary communists intent on bringing the system down from within by electing utter incompetents. Either explanation seems perfectly rational to me, but I think I prefer the notion that the electorate are, at heart, sadists.
*There may be, almost certainly are, woeful MPs in other parties, but the Tory contingent do seem to take pride in advertising how pitifully inadequate they are.