The Talking Clock: PMQs: 24th March 2010

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010

PMQs: 24th March 2010

Mike Penning (Conservative) asked a follow-up about Gordon Brown misleading Parliament and/or Chilcot over defence spending. The Unelected PM tried batting the question away by rolling out a few tractor production statistics.

Indeed, most of PMQs centres on tractor production statistics. Let's see how the opposition leaders managed...

Brown vs. Cameron

Cameron came up with a good line about a picket line outside the Treasury on Budget Day. Cameron then revived the sale of gold at rock bottom prices and demanded the publication of documents about the matter to be published in full, without redactions, before the General Election. Brown responded with some tractor production statistics. When Cameron asked why Brown had spent four years fighting release of information on gold sale, Brown said it was down to the Information Commissioner - to much ridicule from the Conservative benches. Cameron said Brown was once again taking the whole country for fools. On Cameron went with a question on raiding pension funds. Brown said he was happy for everything in his record to be judged... as you wish, Gordon. Cameron repeated his question on pensions and demanded a 'yes' or 'no' answer - he did not get it. Cameron accused Brown of dithering, cover-ups and failing to answer questions.

Our verdict: Cameron victory - supremely confident and quite clearly the better leader.

Brown vs. Clegg

Clegg raised the issue of lobbying and accused both Labour and the Conservatives of blocking LibDem attempts to introduce reform. Brown used his supremely irritating "trans-pair-ent" word four times in replying.

Our verdict: Clegg victory. Portrayed himself as pro-active against Labour and Conservative reactionary approaches.

We can't wait for the General Election and Gordon Brown being booted out of office. He must be the most irritating and annoying politician of all time, anywhere in the world.

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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, 24 March 2010

PMQs: 24th March 2010

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