Look Mum, no brains!

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Another O/T, but I think it has been established that there are a diminishing number of places left on our £3.4B, multi-10's of thousand-strong national, news media cutting-edge broadcaster to comment on matters of daily significance for large chunks of the year...

But post Caroline Flint, with the latest Quick revelations, might we need to again reassess the oft trotted out phrases 'Lessons have been learned'?

Or perhaps encourage more vastly expensive awaydays for senior pols and other public servants who clearly don't, in this GOAT (Gov Of All Talents) herd we're all funding.

This time to get across, paraphrasing John Travolta's character in Broken Arrow, that they should 'please avoid showing the the world's press the Top Secret documents you have been reading when you get out of the car'.

I can only hope that this is, in fact, a clever con.

Otherwise, the label 'laughing stock' seems inadequate in the face of a life of tax-payer-funded ease as a reward thereafter.

SKY - Not so quick - and reading the comments, that might apply to some in the media, too.