The Talking Clock: PMQs: 27th January 2010

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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

PMQs: 27th January 2010

Our unelected and unwanted Prime Minister was off saving the world again today, so Hatty Harperson stood in for him at today's PMQ's.

Hatty vs. William Hague

Hatty has a habit of screeching out party political slogans when she stands in for our Unelected PM. She did that today and got soundly rebuked by William Hague for doing so. Hague looked at the state of the British economy and rattled off an impressive list of the way things have gone wrong under Labour. Hague does have a stature and Statesmanship about him. His time as Conservative leader came too early and one cannot help but wonder how a man of his gravitas would perform if he were to have his time again now.

Our verdict: Hague victory.

Hatty vs. Vince Cable

The widening gap between rich and poor the topic for enquiry here. Hatty rattled off a load of typical Labour claims about how they had tackled poverty.

Our verdict: Cable victory - if only by default because nobody listens to anything Labour say on the economy and related issues any more.

BIG WINNER: David Jones (Conservative). Quoted Lord Mandelson (Voldemort) who said he was "intensely relaxed" about people becoming "filthy rich". Jones' question looked at Tony Blair, in light of the recent announcement of his new role for a hedge fund company. The Conservatives fell about laughing, the Speaker got irate... it was all very funny, a point very well made and Harman was left floundering.

In fairness to Hatty, Evan Harris (Lib Dem) had tabled a question about Catholic succession to the Crown. Hatty injected a lot of humour in looking for the answer from her briefing notes: "It's worth waiting for... or maybe not," she quipped. This one instance of allowing a real personality to come through might be key to any success that she might hope for in her own possible succession within the party she represents.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

PMQs: 27th January 2010

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