It was a real blood and thunder PMQs today. This was the politics of the viscera; whose side are you on stuff.
Ed Miliband chose to start on the strikes. David Cameron ripped into him from the off, calling him ‘irresponsible, left-wing and weak.’ Miliband came back with an attack about how he
wasn’t going to demonise dinner ladies who earn less in a year than George Osborne’s annual skiing holiday costs, though he flubbed the line slightly.
The Tory benches were in full cry, and throughout the session Cameron kept coming back for another swing at Miliband and the union link. At one point, Cameron contemptuously declared that he was
going to say Miliband was taking Labour back to the days of Kinnock but ‘even Kinnock wasn’t as bad as that.’
There’s no doubt that the Tory side of the coalition believe the strikes are a winning issue for them.
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