Setting aside the hilarity of the government squirming over the 'do/don't panic buy petrol' fiasco - and that 'toffs like pasties too' fiasco - here's some more overlooked, but equally contradictory news from planet Tory.
Here in Haringey - so very obviously a part of the inner city - Education Secretary Michael Grove has finally woken up to the anomaly that schools here have been receiving per capita funding as if it were an outer London borough. Of course this never made any sense geograhically, sociologoically, economically or culturally - but there you go.
It might just have something to do with the 'poor performance' of schools here that led Grove to target the borough's schools for academisation - even against the will of staff, parents and governors if necessary.
Because as with hospitals - or any other public service you can think of - whilst funding may not be everything, it doesn't half help. And in that light the decison does represent something of a climb down by Grove - but not I imagine to the extent of withdrawing from his academisation crusade.
But then again in a classic bit of contradictory thinking - as they give with one hand comes another suggestion that they take with the other - and a ludicrous proposal from the 'riot quango' that schools should actually be fined for not meeting literacy targets.
Looks like this fuck-wittery knows no end ...
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