Ed Miliband is rumoured to be on the verge of sacking shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg, who is simply no match for Michael Gove’s flair and intellect. I hear that Vernon Coaker, who was Children, Schools and Families Minister under Brown and Balls, is in line for promotion. Coaker is a former teacher and seasoned political pugilist, so he would certainly brighten things up.
But the damp Twigg has not given up, not yet. As is his wont, he has penned a letter to the Times Education Supplement. And, as ever, it is not a success. Among the usual bleats about Gove being a rabble rousing ‘ideologue’, I noticed this line:
‘Like a shark in a tornado nothing is left undamaged.’
Gove was able to draw on Burke and John Stuart Mill in a piece for the Guardian last week; but poor Twiggy can only nod at ‘Sharknado’, a niche low budget disaster film about, you guessed it, a tornado that spouts sharks. The mock-horror flick has been an unexpected online hit for SyFy, a unit of NBC Universal. Other cult classics which Twigg might like to reference in future are ‘Dinocroc vs. Supergator’ and ‘Piranhaconda’ – assuming that the hapless man has a ministerial future.
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