Dispatch of the Day - 20th February 2008

The dispatchoftheday skunk is still wandering the halls of the House and everybody is still ignoring it. The speaker of the house, far from driving it out, has seemingly been feeding it titbits and the stench is getting worse. Thank goodness he is in charge of the 'Union of Turkey's Christmas Committee' looking into the subject of MP's expenses.

Pretty dire today, the first question from Cameron on more mishandling of data is met with news of, guess what, another Government review. Joy. The 2 leaders trade slogans with neither getting anywhere.

The half time interval sees Captain Clegg come to his feet and bluster his way through the Northern Rock issue. Not an assured performance and he will need to improve. Good to have the issue raised in the House and Brown provokes Cameron into using his remaining questions on it.

Cameron goes on the offensive regarding the freedom of information issues of the nationalisation. His supreme leader jibe is lifted from the pages of Private Eye and his topical Castro comparison fails to land a blow as he gets visibly cross. Brown swats him off quite easily, the killer question wasn't quite there today. Even if it was, it wouldn’t have been answered.

Result: 0 - 0


The table

Position.... Team..... Won..... Drawn... Lost...... F.... A..... Points..... Form

1...............Blues........6...........6..........2........16....8........24......WLDWD

2...............Reds.........2...........6..........6........8....16........12.......LWDLD