PMQs - a bit shit

Brown was absolutely appalling in the House today. Indeed he mishandled the Baby P issue so badly he made David Cameron look reasonable - quite an achievement.

Cameron was not "playing party politics" with the issue - he singularly failed to mention who controls the London Borough of Haringey - and Brown's obstinate refusal to retract said comment made him look a bit pathetic. Lynne Featherstone (a Haringey MP) compounded the PM's error by asking an even more reasonable question and hence highlighting Brown's refusal to order a proper public inquiry.

Brown continued to adulterate himself by a) referring to the third party as the "Liberals", as per usual, which makes ETTL wonder why he doesn't go the whole way and denounce our policies as Whiggish, and b) claiming desperately that the Lib Dem-proposed tax cut would not provide a fiscal stimulus but would adversely affect public services. This is a nonsense, unless one views ID cards and subsidies to big business as public services.

One pines for the days of Tony Blair; at least he was rude in style...