PAEDOFINDER GENERAL HITS OUT

The front-page headline said “Intelligence Services to hunt paedophiles”

The page four headline said “PM pledges intelligence services hunt for paedophiles”

The copy below said “the PM is prepared to call in the intelligence services”

By Thursday it will be – you can bet on it – “PM sets up committee to investigate viability of intelligence services paedophile hunt”

And by next week, the entire idea will be quietly forgotten.

It says a lot about the Prime Minister’s sloppy ignorance that he hadn’t a clue just how pointless his “great breakthrough” was until some hacks began to giggle at him….at which point he played the MI6 card. You can imagine the looks on their faces when he did so.

However, the other side of this debased coinage that Cameron calls “initiatives” is the cooperation required from Microsoft and Google (among others) to put in the anti-porn/paedophile filters….none of which will catch perverts, only stop kids seeing paedo-porn.

Is anyone really naive enough to think that either of those two companies would be happy to do this without some kind of quid pro quo? What, I wonder, has Cameron given away in order to wrest some help from their clenched fists? Now there’s a job for the next award-winning investigative journalist to get his strong, young teeth into.

Meanwhile, Dave has joined the mystified throng of Conservative ministers trying to crack the problem of why social mobility has dried up since 1970. I wonder who’s going to be the lucky devil charged with telling him that Thatcher cut educational investment and didn’t reverse the Comprehensive disaster…..while he himself dumped the Grammar School restoration pledge in 2007….and is busy letting Gove dumb down and sell off the University sector. If only it could be me.

But that’s the thing with the pledge word. It’s a brand of polish, that’s all: it doesn’t cure dry rot.

Last night at The Slog: which comes first….an English return to commonsense, or my death?