I think that I am right in saying that John Major wasted a similar amount of our money with his on his foolish ‘Cones Hotline’ and between Major and Cameron governmental squandering reached new levels of profligacy.

Why can’t our politicians just do the job we pay them to do and stop interferring with everything. We don’t need these projects and I don’t want my money squandered on centralising the teaching of infants, it does not need to be co-ordinated from Brussels or anywhere else and the employment of a cliché dispensing ‘expert’ for the EU parliament is unnecessary.

Having encountered these educational gurus I am rather sceptical about them. They will often go on and on about the importance of the teacher, the privilige of working with young minds, how rewarding it is to teach children, etc. They are so passionate about what a glorious task teaching children is, that it is difficult to see why on earth they packed it in just to go around around enthusing about it.

‘It’s the role of the teacher to motivate children’. What a brilliant observation from Prof. Brierley – who on earth thought that it was their job to demotivate them? What will the EU do next? Invite a vet to Brussels so that he can tell that horses usualy have four legs.