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Mr Bean

Wednesday, 28th November 2007

Cameron was very effective today at PMQs, but Vincent Cable was lethal, describing Gordon Brown's

remarkable transformation from Stalin to Mr Bean.

It's an image that I predict will now take hold. It's amazing how one phrase in one sentence at PMQs can be devastating.

UPDATE: It seems Vincent Cable is not the first person to have made the allusion. In his Express column of 19th November, Leo McKinstry wrote:

As with Mr Bean, Brown is a major social embarrassment to those around him.

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DIRTY EUROPEAN SOCIALIST

November 28th, 2007 12:40pm

Cameron was not effective. You really have switched if you think Cameron was effective today. What a joke.

Joshua

November 28th, 2007 1:01pm

You can judge for yourselves. Go to "Watch leaders clash" directly under story "Brown under fire over donations" -- http://tinyurl.com/2u7fp

NovemberMike

November 28th, 2007 2:50pm

Yep, Cameron makes Brown look like a schoolboy with a slapped bum. Impressive is the word.

Tiberius

November 28th, 2007 4:04pm

I think Cameron was obliged to play a serious issue in a serious manner, a responsibility not quite so demanding of the LibDems. Great quip from Vince, though.

Joshua

November 28th, 2007 9:27pm

That link I posted above is no longer any use. The programme has been changed.

Tariq

November 29th, 2007 6:35pm

And from Mr. Bean to Mr. Has-Been before long, no doubt. (I made that one up, and intend to take full credit for it.)

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