Brown avoids a thumping
Fraser Nelson 12:56pm
Brown lost over immigration at PMQs, but wasn't thumped which is a result for him. He is desperate to tease out a Tory split on the EU referendum, and may be making progress. I notice that when Brown embarked on his usual misleading economic boast (incapacity benefit numbers are dropping about as fast as Venice is sinking), he did not claim to have created 2m new jobs. We now know immigration is to thank for most of this. The Tories should explode the rest of his myths, and leave him with no ammo at all. He seemed more assured today, but Cameron played better to the cameras. And that, of course, is what PMQs is all about.
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David
November 14th, 2007 1:22pm Report this comment"He is desperate to tease out a Tory split on the EU referendum, and may be making progress." The simple way to ensure this doesn't happen is just to stick behind the leadership. But of course, that would be too simple, and besides, ConservativeHome would miss another opportunity to raise its media profile.
Nicholas Millman
November 14th, 2007 11:17pm Report this commentBrown was even more like a great enraged, wounded beast at PMQs. His facial expressions were decidely odd and rather sinister. DC sounded assured and determined but never got his answer. There, in full view of the nation, Brown twisted and turned to evade the question. It was never answered and any notion of this PM's integrity or fitness to govern this country disappeared with the last shreds of his credibility. A rotten PM and a rotten government. To paraphrase dear old Vivienne Westwood it is surely "the most incompetent government in living memory".
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