Konservative stimmen gegen den Kandidaten der Liberalen für die Finanzaufsicht

And this is why Jacques comments were so poisonous.  The moment he did that, the office became unavoidably politicized.  Liberals viewed him as stepping outside his role and so would be dismissive of anything the office produced while he was leading it, Tories viewed him as some paragon for telling Truth to Power and viewed anyone else the LPC nominated as inherently suspect 

This is why somebody like the PBO *needs* to be as neutral, measured, and – frankly – boring as possible.  The need to do everything in their power to avoid putting the PBO in no-win situations like this