We are the problem

What's the problem with the lifelong learning green paper? This newspaper, according to David Blunkett on the BBC's World at One this Wednesday, as leaders of a programme of negativism against the consultation exercise.

"What I'd like to hear from the Times Educational Supplement and the Times Higher Education Supplement is not whingeing but positive contributions and ideas. The education industry is full of whingers rather than people with vision or practical ideas." He went on to explain that nothing can be done anyway. Action is on hold until the comprehensive spending review has been completed.