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Who knew that Gove would be the first faux-FAIL? Just about everybody.

The whole of political chatteratidom was agreed that he was a target way before the election, being Head Boy on the Tories' most crucial, important, significant and politically inflammatory policy, i.e., to wrest education from the death-grip of the 'education' establishment, current props. Balls and Blower, disciples of St Antony Crosland and St Antonio Gramsci.

Gove is currently being hanged, drawn and quartered in effigy by Balls, Blower and every spokesperson of every Left interest group from LEAs to the BBC which is quite disgracefully deploying every propaganda tool in its armoury against the Gover. This is all as predicted, although why we have had no sight of Emily Maitlis's vuvuzela remains a mystery.

Gove is doing what ministers of the Crown used to do BNL (Before New Labour) which is to say he is doing the honourable thing by taking the flak and apologising for the civil servants who furnished him with grossly duff data for presentation to Parliament and the public.

Funny that. People whose numbers and powers he intends to cut and who stand to lose from the success of Mr Gove and the Tory-led government gave this Tory Minister embarrassingly flawed information which, if the rentamob got up by their friends and cheered on by the BBC-Guardianistas had its way, would see the coalition's most politically anti-Left policy hobbled and its standard-bearer humiliated.

Got news for you, Lefties. Ain't gonna happen. The little drama you've got up is transparent and pointless.

Michael Gove [said] he was cancelling the approach of Building Schools for the future because it was an expensive, long winded and inefficient way of building schools. He did not say he was cancelling all new schools building. Indeed, if he is right and he can save substantial sums on the box ticking detailed regulatory approach of the old programme this could leave him with more money to spend on bricks and mortar. This message has got entirely lost in the broadcasts and newspaper stories about cuts, leading most people to think there will now be no new schools.

This needs turning round as quickly as possible. According to the figures the Coaliton government is going to spend as much on new capital projects as the outgoing Labour government. In that case they might end up building more schools than Labour for the same amount of money if Mr Gove is right about how to do it more cheaply. Redwood.

This not-even-a-proper-furore is just a ploy in Ed Ball's doomed campaign for his party's leadership. It has worked for him, in clearing the Millies off the front pages and drawing the chattersphere on to ground on which Balls can display a slightly less repellent than usual profile.

Balls is going to lose and who cares anyway? It's summer and his supporters' howls can hardly be heard above the zzz-ing of gnats. The government remains phenomenally popular - whether the BBC likes it or not and it really doesn't so mwahahahaha.

Keep going, Gover. You're right, and you're all right, and you know you are. And so does the country.