Ah - the price of cleaning up Labour's mess.

If only this were 1997 and the economy and public finances were in good order...

Labour didn't give a single apology in 13 years, wow, they must have been brilliant, right?

Gove took the heat for civil servants eff-up. Brown or [insert name of any Labour MP] would have just said "it wasn't me". There is talk that these goofs are intentional. I hope Labour sleepers are revealed and kicked out.

Always good fun when both Julian Glover and Michael White are on. They're obviously alligned to slightly different parts of the political spectrum and a little antagonistic, but their approaches are also quite different. Glover the political 'scientist' - White more interested in ideas and history.

Classic moment when Glover interrupts White - who is picking his way through 'Yes Minister', Google and the role of 'markets' - with an unjustified 'let's get back to the issue' complaint and then proceeds to say that the Mandarins are co-operating much better with their new 'Coalition' minister after 13 years of having to deal with the other lot. 'Oh' says White - I paraphase a little - that's because Mandrins love nothing better for breakfast than inexperienced and impressionable young virgins. After that Glover seemed relieved to move and discuss what the polls are saying.

Gove should also explain why has not asked the National Audit Office to review the BSF programme, instead he has appointed Sebastian James former schoolbuddy of the Prime Minister, Boris and others to carry out the review.

Cameron is at Cornwall today and he was asked the question why these schools have been cut his reply was( it was labour they left us know choice they had planned 1/2 the Capital budget was to be cut this includes Police NHS Education
He then said ,well 1400 schools cut by half leaves 700 schools will go ahead we had to be transparent

He really thinks we are stupid 1/2 just from Education idiot transparent when ,were,

This guy loves his own voice and is a carbon copy of Thatcher

It is a good thing that these lets throw money down the drain projects are getting pulled. Labour used PFI (Private finance initiatives) to hide massive spending as they don't appear on the book for decades. These projects were not on time were not value for money and were a good way of wasting tax payers money to overpaid construction companies. Also why does everyone in schools need a computer why can't pupils share? A lot of money has been wasted on stuff like white boards in classes what wrong with blackboards (They are better for the environment).

"labour's mess, labour's mess, labour's mess...."

Doesn't matter how many times you say it, I have zero doubt that we would be in the same, if not worse position right now if the Conservatives had been in power during that period.

Labour followed a route any of us would have followed, and we've learned a tough lesson. Let's stop crying the blame game and just get on with getting it right next time!!

PS I am NOT a Labour voter!!!!!

Come on now,you didn,t really think "free schools" were free,did you?
A bit of bad news for Mr Clegg, your conference this season is being held at......Liverpool.
I,m sure he,ll get a right royal welcome from councillor Warren Bradley,Perhaps he could bring his new best friend Dave along and make it a real good old scouse knees up

Lets not forget that we nearly didn't get an apology at all.
Mr Gove was dragged to the despatch box kicking and screaming. Several attempts were made to hide behind civil servants and indeed Mr Gove thought a letter would surfice. He also made a shambolic statement in the house where he knew he was being less than helpfull and down right evaisive.
He made accusations regarding the funding of the Labour adiministration which were not true and tried to perpetuate the lie to defend his plan.
This whole affair is truely disgraceful. To top everything Mr Gove has an attitude at the dispatch box very unbecoming of a minister, the distain with which he treats the members and the house is shocking.
My mother would have slapped his face raw had he spoken to her the way he speaks to other members.
An ideologue who has no sense of care duty or compassion...dogma for personal gain.
He has extreme difficulty in forming or hold an balanced argument without resorting to low underhand smears.
This minister is unworthy of the position he holds....the sooner he goes the better, he is a serial offender.

I still find it difficult to accept the close relationship between the Tories and Lib. Dems. How on earth have basically decent, principled people allowed themselves to be clasped to to the bossom of the 'Nasty Party'supporting policies which favour the better off at the expense of the poor? Someone ought to have reminded them that supping with the devil should be predicated on the employtment of a long spoon.

It would be great to have the paper hire some linguists to look at the patterns of interruption on your podcasts--both in gender terms and, especially on this podcast, what happens when Julian Glover is required to listen for a few seconds to a position that differs from his