Intellectual lightweight toady sticks to party line. She'll go far.

I'm trying to take Diana Johnson seriously.

I guess - unless you live in Hull or you are sat unemployed on the sofa watching the parliament channel - you won't know who Diana Johnson is. You probably couldn't give a stuff.

That is maybe the right attitude, and I salute you for it.

She's an arse.

There you go. I just cannot take her seriously.

OK, I'll try again. Because she's part of a mechanism that has the power to impact on us quite significantly, so I am duty bound.

I'll rephrase. She's not an arse. She is very concerned. Not about education, obviously, because Diana Johnson's a Schools Minister and lackey for Ed Balls. She's concerned about knowing the numbers.

Garbage falls out of Johnson's mouth like a blind badger overturned your dustbin. In the All Party Parliamentary Group on Home Education (Wednesday 6th Jan), she claims the new parental licencing scheme is really about registration. We need numbers, but we need to monitor. We will get the numbers, but we need to monitor.

So what is it about Diana? Is it about the numbers? Or is it about the monitoring?

Because I note those types of phrases she's used here and elsewhere, like we will get... we want to know... we need to find out... Why do you need to know Diana? Is it so you can monitor us all the better?

Diana would say of course not, smartfatarsegritturd, it is because the government simply wants to help you.

And then she follows it with stuff like Refusal to allow child to be interviewed would be taken into account when deciding on registration. Failure to allow such a meeting would be one factor taken into account. Instances of non-cooperation and concern would be taken into account when considering allowing registration to carry on. Disallowing registration would be a final sanction.

And after that threat, she feels she can then add, It really is about developing positive relationships.

Arse.

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