(1) Then Chase fell down on his ass and acted like a complete nincompoop because in real life Ford was a tiny bit clumsy .
(2) The former Labour prime minister refused to respond to the Commons justice select committee which wanted to question Blair on how he could describe himself in his autobiography as a "nincompoop" for introducing the legislation which he now regarded as "antithetical to sensible government".
(3) I hereby resign from whatever contest of cultural significance these keyboard-bothering nincompoops think they're conducting.
(4) "It was utterly undermining of sensible government," he wrote, adding that he had been a "naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop" for introducing the original legislation.
(5) Blair later berated himself as “a naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop” for introducing it.