Bumptious is the sort of word you carry in your back pocket hoping to find a sentence to stick it in. Just when you think you never will, up steps David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.…
Category: PMQ sketch
There’s a touch of Baldrick’s dad about Jeremy Corbyn and more than a touch of General Melchett about David Cameron. Jeremy Hunt as Captain Darling is sublime casting – but we digress. Matters military often come to mind when surveying…
It was when Dave slipped into the face he had borrowed from the smug shop that you realised the crisis was officially over. There had been doubts following reports that Chancellor George had fled the country. But once he was…
It was when Dennis Skinner coupled the adjective dodgy with the name Dave that the fun began. Until then the greatest crisis facing the Government since the last greatest crisis looked like frittering out. There had been a bit of…
It should have been David Cameron’s worst week ever – but that was before Labour rode to the rescue. Only the people’s party could shoot itself in the foot and then stick it in its own mouth for good measure.…
If the whole brass section of the London Philharmonic had turned up, George would have out-brassed them. If you’d turned up expecting to hear an apology, you were in the wrong place. If you wanted a bath, you were in…
It was Jeremy’s best ever Prime Ministers Questions – and his worst ever budget statement. To be fair, it was his first ever budget statement – but politics is never fair. If it was, Chancellor George would have entered the…
Tory MP Michael Fabricant said it all yesterday when he used – as he later described it – “ an eight letter word beginning with ‘b’ and ending in ‘cks’.“ Mr Fabricant, for those who don’t know, is the MP…
It was all going so well until somebody mentioned David Cameron’s mam: suddenly it was high noon for handbags. Until then it had been the normally irrelevant Wednesday outing for Prime Ministers Questions. With Europe as the issue of the…