Gorse Fox loved the quote from Max Hastings in this mornings Dail Mail on the subject of John Prescott (the Odoius Deputy Prime Monster) and the education reforms:

"As far as Prescott is concerned if one child can't have it, no children can have it."

The lumbering dinosaur seems to espouse an intellectual scorched earth policy. Taking it to its logical conclusion we should:

• Dispose of our cars - not everyone has one (in fact not everyone has two jags)
• Dispose of our phones and gadgets - not everyone has one
• Dispose of our houses (oh, no he's doing that!)
• Dispose of our grasp of the English langauge - he doesn't have one
• The list goes ever on as the ODPM tries to drive us back to the stone age where people of his apparent intellect might feel adequate