The story explained how children's minister Beverley Hughes had plans toforce parents to go to special classes to learn to sing their childrennursery rhymes.
The massively spun version of an unremarkable suggestion was a gift forMail writer Allison Pearson. She filled her column with ponderous jokes."The Little Miss Muffet taskforce hit the streets yesterday, arrestingparents suspected of not giving their children curds and whey."
Pearson then made an extraordinary attack on childcare staff. So manynurseries "are staffed by poorly paid assistants who are about as likelyto sing a nursery rhyme as Catherine Tate's 'Am I Bovvered' girl is tosmile".
"I wouldn't leave my hamster with those sullen girls," adds Pearson.
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