Recently, we had a court case because a parent had smacked a child three times with a wooden spoon even though there was nothing to see.
Consequently, he has won the wooden spoon.
I understand that it is illegal to have any wooden equipment in the kitchen; one cannot use a wooden chopping board or, which is worse, a wooden spoon.
Labour offers only the wooden spoon of higher taxes, higher spending and lower growth.
I myself have stood by a man who was stirring glycerine and nitric and sulphuric acid with a wooden spoon, and a very dangerous work it was.
I cannot overturn in terms of student funding and funding for universities the difference between the silver spoon that some children are born with and the wooden spoon of others.
The wooden spoon—the consolation prize of £10—is a substantial bonus to people who have bought tickets.
Nothing but a wooden spoon would be safe.
