Another out-of touch government proposal is branded a gimmick, D'oh!

As soon as the government comes up with ideas these days, it appears that there is immediately someone who wants to rubbish them. The worrying thing however is that it isn't even the opposition who are leading the attack. It seems to be the professionals who actually work in any area that the government hatches a "catch the pigeon" style reform or proposal. Jacqui Smith was decapitated yesterday over plans for her violence against women register. It's Gordon Brown's turn to be rubbished today.

In a speech called "Working Together", he will announce later today that: "We will recruit the brightest and best in our public services - for instance, with a new fast track teacher training scheme, taking six months instead of a year, to bring career switchers into the teaching profession."

However Mary Bousted, general secretary of the teaching union, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said;

"It sounds like an employment scheme for unemployed bankers, but this may not be the best way to go about it". she added; "I'm becoming very worried about the plethora of different gimmicks and initiatives the government is coming out with - this looks very much like back-of-the-fag-packet stuff."

If in fact this is a job scheme for ex-bankers, as a parent, I would be a little concerned (and a little sensationalist acknowledged) that these people who have spent the last couple of years of their professional lives ruining the world's economy through sheer and utter greed and avarice would have any input to my child's education and upbringing.

Anyway the point is that I am finding it hard to come to grips with how out of touch and seemingly desperate this government actually is. They should be trying to actively and cooperatively solve problems with the people who are facing them and not sitting in Whitehall pushing the same old "idea peas" round the same old "manifesto plates". They're stale. They're remote and they're failing. We need a change but we won't get one because this government's too arrogant to see that what they are actually doing and suggesting is going to do more harm than good for this country...and that really makes me mad!!!