Education and Speeling The New Labout Way

Education, education, education...New Labour continues its relentless drive to eradicate education from schools as well as from the titles of its own ministries:

- Schools advised to abandon the 'i' before 'e' rule; the Department for Children, Families and Schools issues a 123-page document, Support For Spelling.

- Out of the nursery, into the rat race: the growth of private tutoring under New Labour. Labour is good for something then - private enterprise.

- Balls grabs more powers for himself in a new 'Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning' bill. That's his way of 'devolving responsibility locally'.

And Gordon Brown in the Guardian supplement:

And he really believes that the age we're living in is a progressive one. He cites a bit of evidence for this: for the first time, he says, teaching is the most popular occupation for people leaving university. "It's a great profession. I could move to teaching ... " He beams, as if to say, You see! There's always something else I can do!

Not a good idea.

Knock Knock It's The Food Stasi

(Liz Goodwin, CEO of WRAP, was paid £188,000 in 2008)

It's getting too easy to take the piss out of New Labour these days. It seems they come up with a new wheeze every week.

How about having a 'food champion' knocking on your door to give you advice about what to do with your leftovers?

It's all part of the LoveFood Hate Waste campaign.

All paid for out of your taxes, of course, via yet another bloody quango, the Waste and Resources Action Programme:

Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by government funding from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Here's the link to that. Plus another interesting link to Purple Scorpion last year concerning WRAP's funding and finances.

Waste? New Labour are beyond satire.