Why the hell is Kirtley not in the Test Squad to tour the Windies?

So I'll take my life in my hands and ask a Pom-related question. It's also largely a cry of rage at the selectors, who, frankly, are incompetent. James Kirtley spends his county career bowling a on a flat, dead track at Hove, takes wickets by the bucketload. Plays some Tests, bowls up a storm against a frankly (not to you, I know) scary South African batting line up, does as well as can be expected in SL, and gets ignored.. (He's taken 19 wickets in four tests, for God's sake....) again, in favour of Jimmy Anderson, who is, you know, kind of okay....

This is only one symptom of a deeper malaise. I have no idea why the England selectors persist in picking the wrong bloody team. Read over Jones, Hoggard over Johnson etc etc. But it's starting to get annoying.