Sketchup: PMQs 10 February 2010
A selection of lines from parliamentary sketch-writers.
David Cameron tackled Gordon Brown on government plans for elderly care and Nick Clegg asked about compensation for injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
the scene in the Commons as "beyond Punch and Judy, more Punch and Punch and Punch again" as David Cameron asked the PM again and again about elderly-care plans:
"You'd think that the subject of social care for the elderly would make everyone sober up but it didn't. It was like watching a brawl in an old people's home -- unedifying, baffling and rather embarrassing."
that it was a rowdy occasion:
"Behind the Tory leader, his backbenchers were in a sort of Bacchic fury, shuddering with unpleasant rage at Brown's patent inability to answer the question. They pointed, they screamed, they rocked back and forth, clearly indignant."
that the PM fell back on the familiar approach of repeatedly telling the opposition leader that he had "no policy, no substance" even though David Cameron was asking about policy:
"Brown looked a bit silly, refusing to discuss the policy while demanding a policy discussion."
that Gordon Brown's tactics are those of a gambler who knows the odds are sky-high but reckons it's still worth a punt:
"Promise the world. There is little chance of having to see them through. On the off-chance that you DO win the election, heck, something will turn up."
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