Michael Gove - a Miserable man...

It seems that I was watching the Commons at the wrong time yesterday. Far from PMQs, the real excitement came during Michael Gove's apology to the House over the appaling errors in the list of school building cuts his Department had released on Monday (which really were awful by the way - does the Department of Education have to make such a habit of embarrassing its Ministers?)

The exchanges were bad-tempered to start, but reached a whole new level when Labour MP Tom Watson stood up...

An outburst that raises a number of points:

1. Tom Watson really should know better. Yelling and screaming in the House isn't the way to make your point, no matter how angry you are.

2. It seems a tad harsh to blame Gove for 'the hopes of hundreds of thousands' of schoolchildren, particularly given the fact that none of the schools involved have officially been promised the money at any time, pre or post-election.

3. Being as the Speaker only asked Watson to withdraw the term 'pipsqueak', does that mean the rest of his comment stands on the record? Gove might display a certain dry wit, but he's never really struck me as a miserable man...