The tech portfolios are a regular dumping ground for dunderheads who are too well-connected to drive to the outer ministry, but too stupid to be entrusted with

The tech portfolios are a regular dumping ground for dunderheads who are too well-connected to drive to the outer ministry, but too stupid to be entrusted with ... well ... anything. I remind people here that they should join a political party and consider seeking preselection, or at least influencing policy. It's important that you join the party you otherwise most agree with. At different times, different parties will hold Government. Concentrating expertise on any topic in one party is a solid-gold guarantee that the other party will reject that expertise.