Thursday sing-along

The Government plan to claw-back funds from state schools has been shelved after ~~bad publicity~~ consultation with key stakeholders. Remember folks, even if 100 schools had said they thought the policy was a good one, the Gord would still not have gone ahead with it.
Lorely Burt is the Liberal Democrats' new chairperson of the Parliamentary party. Uh, it's been a long week and we're feeling pretty groggy but, like, who?
Peter Riddell on the internal machinations regarding party funding reform going on within the comrades and in Lord Ashcroft's party. Er, Conservative Party, we meant the Conservative Party.
Pay-as-you throw scheme has been shelved after Downing Street became concerned about the impact on families who produce a lot of refuse. The Gord: "even if one hundred councils had said they thought the policy was a good one...." come on, you know the words to this one - sing along!
Rumours afoot that Comrade Digby may be departing the big tent over his unhappiness with the capital gains tax proposals.
SDP-er Bill Rodgers warns the LibDems not to turn into a pressure group.

Steve Richards on Brown's vision: he does have one!
The Times on the unseemly bout of kilt-and-haggis induced bitchslapping in the Chamber yesterday.
"Give middle class berks with entitlement complexes more of a say," demands the Independent, "for they are no longer funded wholesale by their less-fortunate counterparts through taxation, and are now required to put something back into society after graduation, which is an outrage."
Chuffing hell, who'd be a kid today? First you're not allowed to play outside because paedos are lurking behind every bush, so you're kept in to play on your computer - shoving burgers down your throat and contributing to the nation's obesity timebomb - and then the police realise that paedos are lurking behind the virtual bushes as well. How we all survived in the past is anyone's guess.