The British Lieberman

As Joe Liberman was kissed on the forehead by George Bush, so Michael Gove kisses the feet of Tony Blair, who should now nominate him for Vice-President of the EU.

This is the Tories' strategy: "Weren't things so much better under dear old Tony Blair?" If you don't think that things were very good at all under dear old Tony Blair, then you cannot possibly vote Tory.

Gove also refers to the man he allegedly shadows as "Ed", and expresses, not just the Political Class's pathological hatred of local government generally (full of ghastly provincial people with those vulgar things called jobs), but its specific hostility to municipal involvement in education, because without that involvement there can never again be a functioning bipartite or tripartite secondary school system.

So long as there are LEAs, there might once again be grammar schools instead of selection by parental income. And that would never do. Would it?