Twigg fights reshuffle fears with Sharknado

Ed Miliband is rumoured to be on the verge of sacking shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg, who is simply no match for Michael Gove’s flair and intellect. I hear that Vernon Coaker, who was Children, Schools and Families Minister under Brown and Balls, is in line for promotion. Coaker is a former teacher and seasoned political pugilist, so he would certainly brighten things up.

But the damp Twigg has not given up, not yet. As is his wont, he has penned a letter to the Times Education Supplement. And, as ever, it is not a success. Among the usual bleats about Gove being a rabble rousing ‘ideologue’, I noticed this line:

‘Like a shark in a tornado nothing is left undamaged.’ 

Gove was able to draw on Burke and John Stuart Mill in a piece for the Guardian last week; but poor Twiggy can only nod at ‘Sharknado’, a niche low budget disaster film about, you guessed it, a tornado that spouts sharks.