The discredited

Bully boy Prescott shouts on Question Time at anyone who dares criticise Labour education policy - because after all they spent a lot of taxpayers' money building new school buildings very expensively. But as Peter Oborne reminds us, Labour ducked the far more important tasks of tackling discipline in schools and taking on the teaching unions.

Labour also played down the importance of the traditional family. Guido amplifies Oborne's charge on this:

It was Erin Pizzey, the founder of the first refuge for battered women, who in the late eighties identified Labour’s then radicals Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt as dangerous feminist ideological enemies of the family. Harman and Hewitt were in those days leading lights of the loony left’s radical feminist wing, arguing in pamphlet after pamphlet that “It cannot be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life, or that the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion.”

Why would anyone take any notice any more of the discredited Harman?

Sky News reports that "a top UK police body has questioned David Cameron's need to draft in a former New York chief to advise him following this week's riots".

Apparently something called the Met Inspectors Branch Board insist they are better placed to offer guidance.

Don't they get it? Under their tutelage police stood by and watched rioting, looting, violence, and damage to property.

Why do they think anyone at all would think it worth while to consult our senior police about anything, after they comprehensively failed to deliver on the most basic task that we pay them for?

They ask

Why won't the Prime Minister consult us?

Don't you get it, you failures?