Comparing Williamson to a hapless sitcom character and his firing to the maudlin death of a child in a Charles Dicken’s novel, Clark concluded that only the heartless would be able to hold back their laughter over the incident.

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While essentially celebrating the ex-minister’s firing might seem a bit harsh, Clark’s highlight reel of some of Williamson’s most ridiculous moments in office certainly helps to explain his reaction.

Preempting liberal talk-show host Rachel Maddow’s conspiratorial rant about Russia’s murderous plot to freeze Americans to death by shutting down the power grid during a cold snap, Williamson kicked off 2018 by accusing Moscow of plotting a similar attack against the UK’s electric grid.

His hyperbolic projected death toll of ‘thousands AND thousands AND thousands of people’ at least partially explains how he earned the blunt nickname “stupid boy” from Clark.

Williamson’s stint of under two-years as defense minister was chock-full of such semi-hysterical Cold War-style outbursts, including his rather brazen statement that Russia as a whole “should go away and should shut up.” Clark pondered the logistics of this demand, asking “where Williamson expects [the country] to ‘go away’ to? The Bahamas? South-east Africa?”

After being embarrassed by his own cellphone when he forgot to turn off its Siri feature during a speech in the House of Commons and his chicken-hawk anti-Russia saber-rattling, Williamson’s alleged information leak and subsequent firing at least seem to be par for the course.

Despite challenging his dismissal and denying he was the source of the leaks about Huawei, Clark says Williamson “deserved his fate.” The only question he still has is how “such a ‘Stupid Boy’ got to be appointed Secretary of Defence in the first place?”

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