Bizarre is the word that springs to mind. The government, specifically the MoD, has been wasting tax payer’s money on trying to get a bunch of people to use psychic powers to guess what is in an envelope.

Which government loon came up with this extraordinary brain wave on how to waste yet more tax payers money (while the Royal Navy is being mothballed) is the question we should all focus our brain energy on.

Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, we just may be able to name the culprit (Don't forget Cherie Blair is a buddy of that old fraud Uri Geller, maybe he impressed the Blair's with his spoon bending that the Blair's asked him if he could help them "bend" the rules) or maybe someone thought they could use these people to predict the next general election results, even hypnotise the head of the Electoral Commission into forgiving or forgetting the LibLabCon donations scandal but concentrate all his efforts on finding a very minor and insignificant technical reason to knobble UKIP

The previously secret tests - conducted in 2002 - involved blind-folding volunteers and asking them about the contents of sealed brown envelopes according to this news report HERE but the subjects consistently failed to establish what was in the envelopes.

The MoD said the study was to assess claims made in academic circles and found the theories had "little value".

I am sure we could have told the MoD the exact same conclusion that these half baked theories had “little value” and it would not have cost the tax payer a single penny.

During the tests, defence experts attempted to recruit 12 "known" psychics who had advertised their abilities on the internet.

However, when they all refused to take part in the research, "novice" volunteers were drafted in.

Surely this must have told the government something was amiss, the penny must have dropped, someone somewhere must have cottoned on to the reason why these so called “known” experts declined, was it because if they were found out, as they surely would be, they would not be able to carry on conning the public out of their hard earned money with their hocus pokus nonsense

So what did the MoD do instead ?, (remember now, this government is heavily committed to finding totally useless projects to waste “your” money on) they drafted in some crackpot volunteers (all probably told they would be serving their country with honour and could be proud of their sacrifice) unfortunately one subject fell asleep while he tried to focus on the envelope's content (It would seem he did not eat his shredded wheat that morning but proved beyond any doubt he had real potential to sit in the house of lords).

"We would hazard a guess that had the final report landed on one of the desks at the Popular Alliance in a "sealed brown envelope", the recipient would have had no need to open it as the person would have anticipated the conclusion reached in the report, even Derek Acora, Mystic Meg and Uri Geller would have guessed that one …….spooky uh"

Well maybe not Derek Acora