Wednesday 6 February 2008

Dispatch of the Day - 6th February 2008

That skunk I spoke about last week is still wandering the halls of the House of Commons, the MPs must spend a lot of time with pegs on their noses as at PMQs everyone is still pretending they don't smell it. My political skunk got a mention on The Daily Politics today and raised a chuckle from Nick Robinson and Andrew Neil!

As expected no mention of expenses today. Cameron led on a subject about which I have often wondered, the number of reviews the Government sets up. Cameron gave a figure of 52 since Brown came to power, which is quite a lot. Again this was a cover for an attack on the PMs dithering over just about any issue you can name. The attack, which was a little nastier than usual, included a couple of jokes about Peter Hain's permatan, Brown not opening his post and needing more time to think about his answers at PMQs. New questions on A-level exams (once again Brown refuses to answer a straight question and sends questions back the way of Cameron - why does the speaker continue to allow this?). And so to the punch line - "This is a hopeless, dithering Prime Minister". At the start of the season Brown may have been flustered by this but he seemed to deal with it a little better today although his sound bites (one borrowed from the former chancellor) fail to land a significant blow on Captain Cameron. Having said his response was less flustered, he did appear physically irritated by Cameron as he spoke.

On the subject of Brown asking questions to Cameron I say this - Call an election and you may well get your chance to do it legitimately. In fact you will have 6 questions a week.

Again a bit of a disappointing performance from both sides and the referee today. There has been a bit of disquiet regarding the officialdom of the House recently, although no team members dare utter a word on the record.

Result: 1 - 2 (but only just)

The table


Position.... Team..... Won..... Drawn... Lost...... F.... A..... Points..... Form
1...............Blues........6...........5..........2........16....8........23......DWLDW
2...............Reds.........2...........5..........6........8....16.......11.......DLWDL

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