Alas, in its final years in office, he concludes, too many voters thought, while they were struggling to stay afloat, that "the government was working for others": for bankers, immigrants, benefit recipients or people in far-off countries.
He concluded: "Too many staff members and contractors' jobs depended on DMI continuing, many of them recognised the project had little chance of success however speaking up would impact their careers and livelihood.
Yet they conclude too much.
For starters, you don't have to be an elitist to conclude that too many students are showing up at too many universities unprepared.
Citing the Australian scribe David Williamson as one of these, she goes on to conclude that "too many playwrights accept the majority verdict and believe they are merely writing 'blueprints for performance'.
Having looked at 400 mobile businesses, the Monitor Group, a consultancy, concludes that too many are dependent on donor money.
After looking at the orbits of almost 300 long-period comets, they have concluded that too many are coming from particular parts of the sky.
He tried burning staves from old whiskey barrels, but that, he concluded, deposited too many tars and tannins on the finished product.
A recent report by Lord Carter, a non-executive director at NHS Improvement, concluded that "too many patients are being unnecessarily taken to ED [emergency departments] by ambulances".
The channel's executives concluded that too many reports in the news media about black lives were told in mostly negative snippets and deserved a bigger platform.
