Wednesday, January 28, 2009
What Iceland Thinks of Gordon Brown
Iain Dale 4:44 PM
This picture was taken outside a shop window in Reykjavik. I shall refrain from further comment.IMF: Britain May Go Bankrupt
Iain Dale 3:00 PM
Gordon Brown
How much longer can the Prime Minister remain in denial? The IMF says that we will have a negative growth rate of 2.8% this year, worse than any other advanced economy. They also say the prospect of the UK going bankrupt cannot be ruled out. That's not David Cameron indulging in a bit of doom mongering. It's the world's pre-eminent economic institution.
Isn't it about time the Prime Minister acknowledged that his policies have made matters worse in this country than elsewhere?
But I suppose we might as well whistle in the wind.Quote of the Day
Iain Dale 2:37 PM
"My nan was told by her doctor that she had acute angina. She replied that she was there to be examined for a heart problem, not chatted up."
UPDATE: Various commenters tell me this is an old joke. Well, I had never heard it before and thought it was worth a titter. Or maybe a Twitter.The Student Politician Flounders at PMQs
Iain Dale 12:21 PM
Only one of us was a student politician, and he's never grown out of it.
I'm afraid Nick Clegg was totally wrong footed by Brown's very short reply of "yes we do" to his first question about whether the PM supported the view that it is wrong for Members of the House of Lords to abuse their position. He had no time to think about his supplementary and consequently garbled a response about the super rich and tax havens, which bore virtually no relation to his initial question. Not good.
Brown 5
Clegg 1
Only one problem. The questioner was Martin Horwood, LibDem MP for Cheltenham. Doh.
Michael White scored it as a "pretty sterile 33 draw with Clegg making little impact on 2".
UPDATE: Tim Montgomerie has twittered that I clearly didn't embarrass Geoff Hoon enough last week; he was tapping away AGAIN on his Blackberry while Gordon Brown was PMQing. How rude.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
"Britain is better placed than any other country to weather the recession."
From one of my commenters called Wallenstein...
I thought this was David Cameron's strongest performance for a very long time. A slam dunk victory. Brown was at his repetitive, floundering worst - totally unable to think on his feet. The only time he managed to light a fuse was in his last answer to Cameron where he had a right old go about Ken Clarke's views. Brown accused Cameron of indulging in student politics, but Cameron hit back with a devastating retort...
Cameron 8
UPDATE: Michael White has been twittering a commentary of PMQs. Very entertaining as you might expect, but he just twittered the following
Tory question. Too long. Classic error.
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