Recently, under the new school inspection framework, schools that used to be judged as “good” have only rated a “satisfactory” rating.

This is not because their standards are declining. It is because, as Ofsted confess, they are “raising the bar” in order to “drive standards upwards.”

This is no different to attempting to improve the health of the general population by calling everyone “obese slobs” if they are more than 10lb overweight and can’t run a half marathon in less than two hours. It won’t work. All it does is alienate and upset people – confirming a few prejudices and reinforcing a few stereotypes along the way.

And worse of all is the Lib Dem spokesman David Law’s comment: “the bottom line is that half of schools inspected were not good enough.” The “half of schools” he is referring to are the 10% that failed their inspections and the 40% which gained “satisfactory” grades – which as we remember meant “good” just seven months ago and which Law himself was perfectly happy with at that time.

The bottom line is that if you believe the politically motivated spin on any government figures, you are exactly the sort of fool whose vote these morons want.