Gordon's Nightmare Begins
At PMQs Guido was watching Gordon Brown's face, he was looking across the dispatch box at a confident Cameron. When Cameron jibed that "You were the future once" at Blair, Gordon's was not a happy visage, his nights must be tortured by flashes of images of the not-so distant future.
Is this Gordon's nightmare?
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"Is this Gordon's nightmare?"
Or perhaps Tony's daydream...
Moribund vs Macaroon! Is this too early to announce my challenge for the 2008 Tory leadership contest!
Rifkind's hissy fit will give Brown pause for thought. 'Embittered old Scot flounces off the front bench.' It could start a trend.
Maybe Prudence will do a bit of modernising - perhaps he will undo his top button and go for a more casual look. Then again, maybe not.
Blair also had a look in the crystal ball - he seemed very taken aback at PMQ by the deft way Cameron separated him from the Lab rebels, in just a few words, by guaranteeing Tory support for the 'sensible' parts of the Education Bill. You could see Blair realising that the left (audibly maddened by DC's offer) will now try even harder to get rid of the PM, while Cameron holds Tony's hand and tut-tuts in polite sympathy. Hilarious...I can't wait for Episode II.
This media love fest is getting a little extreme: "It is always easy to impute unlikely virtues to the cute".
But Gordon *always* looks like that at PMQs.
And am I the only one thinking that everyone's getting carried away with Cameron's performance yesterday? I was distinctly underwhelmed if the truth be told. The Evening Standard review of PMQs was sheer revisionism.
It matters because PMQs will get little coverage over the next few years. People will just remember "DC seemed to clear that hurdle". DC is not a parliamentarian, neitehr is TB. Both will focus on the country at large rather than parliament.
The significant point is that TB has hitherto been able to rely on the Tories shooting themselves in the foot. he's on notice that Labour has lost that inadvertant 5th column.
But is Blair sad about it? Would he be disappointed to see Brown defeated by a DC who continued with the reforms that Blair always wanted but which Brown always vetoed?
We have lost the argument that the state should not fund healthcare & education, but both DC and TB know that Brown's desire for continued soviet-style monopolystic state supply (as opposed to funding) is doomed.
Call it vouchers, passports, or whatever you want. We will end up with a mechanism under which funding follows user/consumer choices. Happy days for Dr Madison Pirie of the ASI.
"DC is not a parliamentarian, neitehr is TB"
renegade liberal,
Perhaps you mistake distain for Parliament as being a poor parliamentarian. When TB occassionally recognises the supremacy of Parliament, he is an excellent performer. One would expect no less of a former barrister.
"We have lost the argument that the state should not fund healthcare & education"
Well Heath thought we had lost the argument against socialism. I think that on health at least, we have a very strong argument for only providing free basic (or maybe even catastrophic) health insurance for the poorest.
Gordon's nightmare? Dunno - but it's bl++dy well mine!
Excellent image - may I use it if I link to you (please)?
GA,
Go ahead
Gordon's nightmare, and the one that really is going to come home to roost, is when he has to explain why dumping squillions into the NHS has not improved Health Care. Indeed, it is worse than it has ever been. It's a nightmare.
Only one "l" in "Miliband" I think.
(Checks google) Yes. And Ralph comes up first. Good
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