Spending more time with the family

This, from Mr. Eugenides' blog, is absolutely glorious about Patricia Hewitt, who is departing because she was a total incompetent to spend more time with her family, just as Alan Milburn left the job years back because he'd hospitalised his- to spend more time with his family:

In an ideal world, I would like to take Patricia Hewitt, tie her up, and slowly feed her into the propeller of a DC-3 - feet-first, naturally, so I could see that condescending fucking face contort in agony. I'd let the blades shear off her legs, and then hand her a mobile and dial NHS Direct, see how much fucking use that would be to her with some cretin in a call centre in Chelmsford asking her where it hurts, the patronising, incompetent, self-obsessed bitch. Later, after she'd expired from blood loss while waiting, in vain, for an ambulance that never came, I'd beat the corpse to a bloody pulp with a bound copy of one of her stupid fucking White Papers, until the only sign that this had been Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Health was the cheering crowd willing me onwards to commit ever greater acts of depravity against the lifeless body.
But I'd probably be breaking some law or other, so I won't.