Insult you, sir? No, sir, I would not dare. But perhaps, sir, you might consider the fact that loyalties are not like one's hair colour, to be passed down blindly from father to son, but an opinion to be formed and coloured by both experience and education?

[ A shallow smile, painfully fake, to accompany the over-abundance of sir-ing. Sorry, Hornblower, but the answer to your question is going to have to wait until Durham stops having a mini-stroke over all this loyalty talk... ]