It started as soon as Ed Miliband stood up at PMQs today. ‘Nightmare!’ yelled the Tories. ‘Nightmare!’
They’d been fired up by the first question from Steve Brine, who craftily double-loaded his query. He referenced the Co-op bank and the ‘nightmare email’ in one sentence.
Would the PM respond, he asked, ‘to grave concerns about the nightmare unfolding at the Co-operative?’
Cameron pretended to be all serious. He fretted about the regulatory controls and about safeguarding the bank without fleecing the tax-payer.
‘Nightmare!’ goaded the Tories.
Ed Balls, seated beside Miliband, flushed puce. Not a natural Trappist, the shadow chancellor is clearly under orders to shut his gob during PMQs. He tries to silence himself by forcing his lips together in the middle. But this makes the ends curl skywards into a randy smirk. It’s bizarre. He looks a tipsy dowager eyeing up the groundsman.
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