Many snooker fans think Ronnie O’ Sullivan is the greatest player who ever lived.

Not many, it seems, think South Swindon MP Sir Robert Buckland has the same status among politicians.

Comedian Mark Streel - who, to be honest, is rather to the left of the Tory MP Sir Robert -wasn’t over pleased when BBC TV turned over from the multiple world champion at the green baize to  cover Parliament, where Mr Buckland was speaking.

He tweeted: “The BBC left Ronnie O’Sullivan at the snooker, to go to Politics Live in which an MP called Sir Robert Buckland is wittering about something or other. It’s like saying ‘that’s enough of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, now let’s hear a dustcart reversing for three miles’.”

There were, as you might expect, a slew of jokes about dustcarts and politicians.

But one tweet seems to have rather complimented the MP.

Presumably referring to Sir Robert’s birthplace and childhood home of Llanelli in south west Wales, Con Murphy wrote: “Sir Robert Buckland – the Terry Griffiths of politics.”

It looks like a slight – but given that Griffiths was a world snooker champion and also a runner-up in the final to Steve Davis and ranked in the top 10 in the world for more than a decade, we suspect Sir Robert wouldn’t mind the comparison.