Even right at the last minute when they know they'll be out of a job these ministers can't stop churning out mountains of paper telling us the bleeding obvious as if we haven't already got enough to do sorting out their messes.

The latest is something called a ‘prevention' Green Paper whatever that is – preventing ourselves from enjoying ourselves as far as I can see – full of nannying stuff like eat more broccoli and only drink half a pint of low alcohol Czech lager every other week.