It's a classroom...say, class V in a boys' school. All the boys are up and about shouting, fighting, except the class monitor who, like the good boy he is, is sitting in his place writing.
When Dr Manmohan singh first became the prime minister, I thought " now we have an honest man at the helm who will not be afraid to expose and throw out the corrupt ministers because he is clean."- didn't happen....I thought "well no clear majority so maybe he can't do anything". Next time round, he had larger numbers and I thought "now he can do it".
But he is like the class monitor.
Moral of the story....' good boys' don't make good monitors.