The man who makes Major look good

Monday, 28th April 2008

As Neil Kinnock once said of Mrs T: he'sfrit.

What a pathetic man we have as PM. 

To adapt Lord Desai's words: he was put on the earth to make John Major look good.

UPDATE: Doh - as a correspondent points out, it was Mrs T about Kinnock.

UPDATE: The all-knowing Oliver Kamm points out I am now wrong twice. Originally it was said to Denis Healey:

PMQ, 19 April 1983.
 
Mr. Healey
Cut and run.
The Prime Minister
The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands. Frightened! Right now inflation is lower than it has been for 13 years—a record which the right hon. Gentleman could not begin to touch.
 

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