The best English spinner

Disturbingly, there seems to be some sort of consensus developing that Ian Blackwell is England's best spinner (apart from the currently incapacitated King of Spain, naturally). That was before today anyway, because stone me, wee Gareth Batty has gone and taken 7 for 23 playing for A team in Antigua. Those are pretty impressive figures, Gareth. Have you been working on a couple of special deliveries over the winter? A doobla doosra or something? Or were the Antigua XI carrying on in the great tradition of teams past (think Sydney in the 80's and Alan Border, 1995 at the Oval) of getting out to innocuous spinners? It doesn't look as if they were slogging too much, or at least not very successfully, because 5 of Gareth's (that's Mr Batty to you, sonny) overs were maidens. Anyway, I haven't been able to find a match report yet. Still, it's very exciting.
As for the best English spinner in India at the moment, I'm still not convinced that it's big Ian. OK, so he took four wickets in the first innings, but let's look at the manner of those wickets shall we? Stumped, caught in the deep, caught in the deep... you get the picture. Derek Pringle seems to think that he was actually bowling best of all the spinners, but then he probably thought of himself as a front line bowler too (ouch). Which leads to the question: if Ian Blackwell is picked, would he have the worst first class record of any front line bowler ever chosen to play for England? That his classification as a front line bowler seems a bit dubious only proves my point, I think. Could we please leave the picking of bits and pieces cricketers who are good at neither one thing nor the other back in the 80's and 90's, back where they belong (yeah, I'm talking about you, Geoff Miller, Derek Pringle, Mark Ealham, the list goes on)? I fully expect big Ian to now go and take a 10 for in the first test. If he does, I shall consume as many meat pies, one after the other, doused in ketchup. I hate ketchup.