The Talking Clock: PMQs: 6th January 2010

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Wednesday, 6 January 2010

PMQs: 6th January 2010

Gordon Brown vs. David Cameron

A bit of a score draw. Cameron mostly unable to land any significant blows on one of the most incompetent and unpopular Prime Ministers of all time. Succeeded in underlining supposed differences between Prime Minister and Chancellor. Brown did his usual routine on questions of the economy. Also did his usual routine of not answering a single question but instead answering the questions he wished he'd been asked about Conservative policy.

Cameron had the best single line when he poked fun at the unelected PM, saying: "When I lean across and say 'I love you darling', I really mean it".

...but why can the man Cam not absolutely destroy the ineffectual lightweight who undemocratically occupies the office of Prime Minister?

Gordon Brown vs. Nick Clegg

Again, score draw. Nick Clegg might - if he had a bit more stature - have managed to make a strong point on the scrapping of the 10p income tax rate. As it was, his questions limped by, barely being noticed.

Question of the day: Ann Winterton (Conservative) - very bravely stood up and spoke against the fallacy of man made global warming. While she was derided by her Parliamentary colleagues, her question will have had resonance amongst many members of the public. Asked about the ludicrous economic viability and return on off-shore wind turbines. Wasn't answered. Was simply derided. But her question - very brave in the face of the convention amongst the political elite - was in tune with the thinking of this blogger and she zooms up in our estimation for having the courage to ask the question that dare not speak it's name.

In addition, Graham Allen (Labour) delivered an authoritative and very statesman-like critique on the charade and isolation of Parliament and it's irrelevance and remoteness from we, the people.

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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, 6 January 2010

PMQs: 6th January 2010

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