Note how Sarah Vine gets involved.

Sarah Vine is married to Michael Gove.

Are the Tories the only ones who have done this? If so, then something should be done, if not then it’s a storm in a tea cup.

1) These people are being paid by taxpayers, and their job is to troll and throw personal abuse at journalists and other politicians questioning Michael Gove’s activities.

2) These people are clearly part of the Conservative party, despite some attempts by Tory MPs to brush off the claims.

3) It is a breach of the code of conduct

4) Advisors working for Michael Gove are clearly misleading journalists too.

— but these people are anonymous at all. They are sanctioned by the Conservative Party and listed under their official accounts.

Can we have some names please?

This looks like it belongs under the ‘shit no-one cares about’ umbrella.

Michael Gove is invariably held up as the Leader-in-Waiting by breathless people who insist that the Conservative Party is entirely other than it is or ever has been.

Gove has been very aggressively in favour of same-sex “marriage” at least since his days on The Moral Maze, a decade and more ago now, when the New Labour Government of the day was specifically and articulately ruling it out.

That was Gove’s only discernible point of dissent from New Labour. Even after he had been selected as the Conservative Party’s candidate for one of its safest seats, he was still using his Times column to express his schoolgirl crush on Tony Blair.

While heaping praise on the subsequently disgraced old Trotskyist Stephen Byers, on the erstwhile Trotskyist bookseller Alan Milburn, and on the SDP and Lib Dem veteran Andrew Adonis. All of whom he announced as a fact would have seats in a Cameron Cabinet.

As would indeed have happened in the extremely unlikely event of a Conservative overall majority in 2010. Gove now fills the position that Adonis would have done. From it, Gove is destroying Religious Education in state schools. But we are at least spared the direct influence of his psychotic views on foreign policy.

On coming down from Oxford, Gove was refused employment by the Conservative Research Department on the grounds that he was not traceably a Conservative, or even political at all. Instead, then, he became an employee of Rupert Murdoch, with whom he continues to have regular, off-the-record meetings.

Gove’s wafting first into Parliament and then into the Cabinet constitutes a worse assault on our sovereignty even than John Major’s appointment of Jonathan Aitken as Minister of Defence Procurement on the orders of the Saudi Royal Family. Aitken was at least an MP already, and his preferment was at least to a non-Cabinet post.

There is hardly the vocabulary to describe what would have befallen this Realm if Gove were to progress any further.

“Govey spad” does have something of the playground about it.

Christ, more and more of the comments on this place seem to be written in green ink.

Michael Gove is a real asset to his party – New Labour Conservatives.

His education policy is legendary – “If it ain’t broke, fuckin’ break it to hell.”