Gordon Brown has recently adopted a strange practice when attempting to deal with David Cameron at PMQs. He replies, not to the question just asked, but to the previous one.
Today Cameron (who spoke entirely without notes) asked Brown (who was armed with his usual paginated, indexed and colour-coded lever arch file) a couple of questions about parliamentary pensions and allowances, to which the PM gave fairly non-committal replies.
Cameron then turned to the issue of Labour’s refusal to allow a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Gordon clearly decided he wasn’t too keen on the question, so answered the earlier one about allowances again.
Cameron then challenged Brown to a televised debate at the next general election. Gordon answered the referendum question again. Cameron repeated the challenge. Brown repeated the referendum answer.
It was all very odd.
Nick Clegg, by the way, put in another feeble performance. He really must raise his game.
Today Cameron (who spoke entirely without notes) asked Brown (who was armed with his usual paginated, indexed and colour-coded lever arch file) a couple of questions about parliamentary pensions and allowances, to which the PM gave fairly non-committal replies.
Cameron then turned to the issue of Labour’s refusal to allow a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Gordon clearly decided he wasn’t too keen on the question, so answered the earlier one about allowances again.
Cameron then challenged Brown to a televised debate at the next general election. Gordon answered the referendum question again. Cameron repeated the challenge. Brown repeated the referendum answer.
It was all very odd.
Nick Clegg, by the way, put in another feeble performance. He really must raise his game.
2 comments:
I hope Glegg does not raise his game, for our sakes.
I heard Brown answer the question over televised debates by saying the USA does not have a PMQ type slot.
Cameron acknowledged how little the public thought of the behaviour of the house.
Quite right.
" I switched on Radio Wales to listen to Good Evening Wales, and there he was, sounding for all the world as though he were an Assembly Member already. And a very sensible one at that".
Glyn Davies is loosing the plot, that is what he has posted on his blog, about the infamous Peter Hain!!
Call the men in the white coats, pronto!!
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