He is clueless and wandering about with a host of pet schemes some madcap advisers have told him will make him look good.

Clarke had not forgotten his previous pet scheme: the Commandos.

And on another of Gove's recent pet schemes - this idea that teachers can't be got rid of?

All they have to do, it seems, is give entirely notional support to the government's pet scheme - its academies.

"The third possibility is my own pet scheme," Jason smiled.

This is because coalition partners in a fragmented system demand public spending for pet schemes as the price for their support.

Irene says he was gouging people for every last dollar to put it all in some pet scheme.

The U.S. President's pet scheme isn't going to save the world, but ruin it.

She is pushing a pet scheme to privatize water supply in the country.

One pet scheme in Washington at this time was for an international board to supervise the running of the canal.