But is that necessarily the case? Given the many notable incidents that studded Hezza’s long and illustrious career, many connotations are surely possible. Let me offer a number of alternative suggestions.

I think we can safely discount any desire to flounce out of the cabinet in a hissy fit over whether European or US interests are best placed to bail out a floundering UK helicopter operation.

Not only is this now a dead issue, but since 2004, Westland’s successor came 100% under the control of Finmeccanica of Italy. Ironically, then, Tarzan ultimately got his way on this one.

Nor can it mean the institution of a mass programme of pit closures, simply because there is no longer that much of a UK deep mining industry left to butcher.

Perhaps it indicates a barely suppressed desire to pick up the mace and swing it threatening in the general direction of Labour leftwingers innocently singing the Red Flag, forcing the speaker to suspend a parliamentary session, as Heseltine - pictured above - did in 1976.

But ultimately, I seem to remember that our man suffered a serious heart attack in Venice in 1993, leaving him temporarily wheelchair-bound. And where did this cardiac infarction take place?

In a hotel, of course. And that is a moment any of us would understandably want to avoid. Seen in that light, Miliband must be cleared on all charges of insubordination.