Twas ever thus

Chris Lightfoot brings us the latest Government cock-up news - and this time it's a three-for-the-price-of-one special.

There's always the possibility that at some point, some Minister or Civil Servant may read one of these analyses of their inability to hit a cow's arse with a banjo and it might persuade them that maybe, just maybe, these plans are unworkable and they'll take that thought to David Blunkett.

Of course at that point Blunkett, a master of the use of dementedly positive thinking to overcome any potential obstacles to his increasingly unhinged ideas, will wish them into the cornfield.