Prizes for trivia

Does all the fuss and bother about what some politician did or didn't say to the policeman near a gate one dark night take this year's prize for a response completely out of proportion to an event? I read this morning that 30 police officers are now beavering away on it. What a bunch of plonkers we are to be spending our cut-to-the-bone government spending money on such stuff: one expects the media to be a bit daft, but it shouldn't be necessary for the rest of us to play copy-cat.