Ouch.

Seriously, ouch.

What an ignorant moron. Yes, lets have widespread use of linguistic phonics in teaching, mate. It really does help. But make sure your Government, and your Party, is willing to fund such an expensive change.

And then don't start bullshitting about "oh, no, dyslexia doesn't exist", when almost everyone has seen people struggling with it through their life. I've had friends who've wanted to enter great careers, who find themselves terrified by their condition. I've had friends who were diagnosed with it even after secondary school. They can read, they just get muddled, and make mistakes.

Its all very well saying, Mr Stringer, that dyslexia doesn't exist and its down to "poor teaching methods". Its even all very well suggesting we need phonic systems of teaching (so bloody pay for them, then!). But when you start dismissing the deep, painful personal struggles of millions of people, you've lost all respect there.

An invented condition does not keep your friends back at school after hours, desperately trying to keep up with your class. An invented condition does not leave your friends embarassed to even pick up a book. An invented condition does not leave your friends forgotten and left behind by our current education system.

Quite frankly, such stupidity deserves to be ridiculed, from this MP. Its disgraceful, shameful and will hardly help children who have been diagnosed with this, to cope, if they hear an elected representative say its fictional.

At least its only one more backbench Labour donkey, so hopefully it won't do too much damage.