Looking back at this PMQs Brown will feel he did well. At first glance (and without reading between the lines, something that we, the public, don't do afterall) he landed a series of beat downs on Cameron and finished the exchange with a neat decapitation of the tory party. I'm sure he feels good about it.
Except thats not what happened. What happened was that Cameron handed over his sword weakly to watch with glee as Brown stabbed himself with it!
Cameron did waste his questions. Unfortunatly Brown also wasted his answers.
He pointed out that noone agrees with tory policy, conveniently forgetting people answering the opinion polls. If the french, germans etc could keep Brown in office he'd be laughing. Oh dear. They can't.
He accused Cameron of reducing everything to personality (which Cameron was) but then said that Cameron was "out of his depth", that Cameron is "simply not up to the task". So thats looking at the big picture is it Gordon?
This post is being rather one sided thus far so let me restate that frankly Cameron and almost the entire conservative party were apalling in the way they wasted all the questions they asked, coming across as overconfident and arrogant, not something I want from any politician right now. The sad fact is though that they showed how right they are about Brown due to party pleasing but kamikase responses.
The ultimate irony was his response to the last of Cameron's questions. He responded that the tory leader had not asked about any serious issue. My response, echoed by conservative peer Lord Strathclyde was that Brown never answers these questions when asked so what was the point? My opinion was partially confirmed when Iain Duncan-Smith asked about the Gurkhas and had to wait till the last sentence of a long "this is what we did before which them overthere wouldn't/didn't do" speech to get his answer. Point proven.
Gordon Brown may have killed himself in parliment. But parliment as a whole has killed itself before the general public.
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
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