Estelle Morris

Estelle Morris, formerly Secretary of State for Education has resigned. She did so because she felt that she was not up to the job. She believed herself to be incompetent.

Well, of course she is incompetent. They are all incompetent. There's Gordon Brown stuffing up the economy with ever more regulation. And David Blunkett turning the country into a police state thugocracy not to mention Alistair Darling's cunning plan to spend billions to little effect on the railways and to saddle future generations with the debt.

Incompetence is what government does best. Damn it, it's about the only thing it does.

Actually, the fact that Estelle Morris is incompetent and knows she is, makes her an ideal candidate for the job. Any job.

The dangerous ministers are the ones who think they know what they are doing. These are the sorts of ministers who jam up the Commons with pointless legislation while frittering away ever greater sums of public money for ever less result.

We need far more of the Estelle Morris sort - the sort who don't think they know what they are doing. We need ministers who are fully aware of their eye-watering incompetence and act accordingly. The self-aware incompetent will make great efforts to reduce his workload. He will know that every decision he makes will be wrong so he will start reducing the number of decisions he has to make. He will reduce the size of his department, abolish legislation and cut back the budget.

Come back Estelle, all is forgiven.