i should be the new home secretary for education

There’s a lot of talk on the news recently about how the country is running out of prison spaces. Leaving aside the obvious point about how we let it get to the stage where we have only around 200 places left in the whole country (That could be filled after a single football match between Millwall and Cardiff) I have a suggestion.

The education system will soon be facing a problem. A demographic down turn caused by an estimated cost of £165,000 to bring up a child and better television will lead to a funding crisis in schools. Fewer pupils, less money. Less money, less progress.

We could solve these two issues in one swoop by merging them. Criminals and children learning together in perfect harmony. Classrooms would be filled, Classroom discipline would improve, teachers would hold on to their jobs and prison cells would be freed up. Teenage shoplifters would have professional role models and school dinners would undoubtedly improve. It seems a logical step to me.
Just a thought.