Money and effort  that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields  has been wasted on power politics  and I agree that it's time  surely to put an end  to that disgrace  now there is a certain logic in  Mr  amendment, it basically says  let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education, let him take executive control  and let us take politics out of it  and if I thought that that would do what both Mr  and myself want to happen I would support.