Theresa May meets the people

Aaahh, Gateshead.  It were not going terribly well, but then someone put the cat among the pigeons by asking what she did to unwind.  The Times reports:

Here is her verbatim response to this stinker of a question. “Hahahaha,” she said. “Hahahaha. Well. It’s, er, um, there’s lots, several, er, things I like to do. I like walking. So we, er, we, er, my husband and I, er, enjoy going walking when we can, er, taking holidays, er, walking.” Let no one be in any doubt that walking is something she enjoys. Discovering that this answer had not gone down badly — Gateshead may not be the Lake District but some people enjoy walking there too — she developed her list of interests.

“I enjoy cooking,” she said, followed by a long pause as she considered what to add to this. “It, er, has a benefit because you get to, er, eat it as well as, er, make it.” (Then a long pause as her internal voice screamed “what are you going on about?” at her.) “I have over 150 cookbooks,” she added, “so I, er, spend a lot of time looking at cookbooks.” Painful though this sounds, it was more interesting than her answers on Brexit.

Sensing that this was still not enough, Mrs May thought she had better throw in a TV show. But which? She tried to remember the box sets David Cameron had left in the Downing Street flat. “Does anyone know NCIS?” she asked. “I like watching that when I can.”

And suddenly she looked scared that someone would ask for her favourite character. Is that the one with Hawkeye, Radar and the bloke who wears dresses? The only thing worse for her than explaining Brexit is trying to appear normal.