Lowering the bar

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When Dominic Raab resigned after being accused of bullying staff just a few months ago, many of his friends and allies leapt to his defence, and claimed, in effect, that being a demanding manager wasn’t bullying at all, it was just a question of trying to maintain high standards. Jake, in particular, accused those complaining about Raab’s behaviour of being a “blizzard of snowflakes”. It’s clear that he thought the complainants were setting the bar too low. I wonder what he makes of the complaint from a fellow-member of the ever-diminishing Boris Johnson Appreciation Society that denying her the peerage to which she feels entitled and which her idol had promised her amounts to bullying by Rishi Sunak? Jake, sorry, that should be ‘Sir’ Jake, hasn’t yet sprung to the defence of Sunak the way he did for Raab. It’s a strange world where failing to ennoble Mad Nad is somehow seen as being worse than berating staff and their work in front of their colleagues.