When your back is against the wall and you are stuck between a rock and a hard place then you might as well dig deeper into the bag of cliches for another one that fits – step forward cross-party consensus.…
Category: PMQ sketch
David Cameron saw off Ed Milband at Prime Ministers Questions–and its been written down so it must be true. It may not have been much of a win but any victory counts after months of being on the end of…
With the election of the leader of the free world for the next four years now sorted out it seemed only sensible that politics should move swiftly on to its next seismic event, Prime Ministers Questions. And, as if to…
One of the great mysteries of modern politics is how the leader of the Labour Party manages to smuggle a sharp pointy stick past Commons security every week to poke the Prime Minister. Ed produced it with his usual flourish…
When the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accused the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition of telling “a whole load of rubbish jokes” you could tell another week had gone by in the British body politic. And…
Aficionados of films of the western genre, otherwise known as cowboy movies, would have thought they had stumbled onto the set of High Noon had they taken a wrong turn into Westminster at lunchtime today. All that was missing was Frankie Laine’s…
It was when Sir Bufton Tufton rose and asked about Angela Merkel and her bazookas that you wondered if the future of the country really was in safe hands. Some may point out that Sir B is a fictional character…
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland brought his bottom to the House of Commons today and got it a good kicking. Having spent much of the last month on the run abroad he…
After 18 months in the doldrums Ed Miliband at last came up with a successful strategy today for taking on the Government — munching on millionaires. It may seem odd that the leader of the Labour Party has taken so…