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Gove Spoof

The education secretary, Michael Gove, has claimed that political parties are planning parliamentary debates this autumn on the basis of an "amalgam of moans and groans and objections to educational policy."

Gove accused the political parties of behaving like outmoded trade unions of the 1970s as he attacked them for rejecting performance related pay.

He said: "Parliament is hard-pressed to acknowledge that there may be some members of the political classes who are not doing a good enough job. They decline to acknowledge that we should award those MPs who are doing a brilliant job, because they want every MP to be treated in the same way, as if they were interchangeable cogs in the military industrial complex.

"They see themselves not as harbingers for change, but as defensive, right-wing - ideologically committed to keeping a model for parliament that was out of date in the 1970s for the elite, and could not be more inappropriate for the 21st century for the next generation of shelf-stackers."

Mr Gove has a 2:1 degree in English from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and worked as a journlalist before getting into politics. It appears that Gove has no qualifications or work experience in teaching or education.

Mr Gove is secretary of state for education.

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