as does the other fella who, just for extra Gammon Baiting, has donated his share to a charity that helps support LGBTQ+ refuges in particular.

I would imagine that there were several exploding heads in the general vicinity of Nigel Farage.

that's part of the issue though.

He was good in the sort of task that he has probably experienced and been trained to manage at least something like it, he was very competent and stepped into the role that he was best suited for, fair enough, in the same way that they had Hannah Fry doing the maths when it got a bit complicated, that also makes complete sense.

What it doesn't mean is that that person should then be blindly trusted in other tasks which don't actually have anything to do with their background, training or experience.

Again this isn't a slight on Blunt himself as much as it is the group as a whole not pushing back, if there was an ex copper or MI5 operative or something then you sit back and let them take charge, clearly they have the training and experience, but there wasn't that. They let him have a go and when he got it wrong, they let him again, and again, despite there then being ample evidence that he was just as clueless as the rest of them, but in that very British way they deferred to an upper class twit with floppy hair because he was so confident in himself and how correct he was.

You see it all the time in workplaces and the like, and in government. People trusted to do a job beyond their competency level because they speak well and with confidence about something they really don't know anything about.

There is a bit in "Tinker Tailor etc" when Connie makes an observation about how Smiley, Haydon and all the others are bred to be leaders of empire for an empire that doesn't exist any more. That's the kind of thing I'm on about, and the general population of Britain laps it up like a dog with a bone.

Classic Traitors double-bluff I reckon.

“Heisenberg I’ve put your name down, I just had to go with my gut, all I’ve got to go on is when you called us all worthless shallow narcissistic cunts. I’m really sorry.”

What I find interesting though is despite knowing it’s a game, you could see them starting to actively dislike each other based on nothing at all. They would ”suspect” others based on the flimsiest of premises let’s face it, the traitors don’t actually do anything during the day except on the single “kill in plain sight” one. Otherwise they have done nothing different to the “faithfuls”.
In fact they started suspecting one another during the period where traitors had been chosen and them actually getting rid of someone, so literally nothing to go on.

They are working. It's not their real personality. It's a cleverly contrived optical illusion between creators and their agents to make people believe it's somehow real people not characters. Same as any other publicity they get.

I was shocked that they just didn't dump off anyone vaguely ethnic or lower on the celebrity food chain as seemed to have happened in previous series.

I thought that Kenny bloke was toast the moment he turned up. None of the luvvies knew who he was whereas loads of the others were "industry mates".

Having said that, Amol being dumped first was a pure delight, he absolutely loves himself so it was ace to see him just fucked off pronto.