PMQs: SAME OLD, SAME OLD...

Having had Gordon on the back foot last week, Dave decided to go try an attack on the NHS, always a dodgy decision for the Tories. Dave asked about targets and quoted various people who considered them to be limiting their work, Gordon defended targets and quoted other people. This went on for four questions as their voices increased in volume and nothing new was learned. Dave asked why Gordon wouldn’t listen to the people who worked in the NHS, Gordon responded that it was precisely because he listened to the British people that….and then I lost consciousness.

Then Dave moved on to Europe, asking about a referendum. Cue the left hook, as Gordon simply stated that Dave had decided to move on from the NHS. Gordon’s approach is simply to repeat, repeat, repeat which is crushingly dull but it stops Dave from landing any blows at all.

David Cameron is a lightweight.

Vince Cable stood up and seemed uncannily popular today, with everyone cheering, which must have pleased him. He asked about married people benefiting from the tax system. Gordon answered with a fulsome tribute to Ming and then a crushingly dull response on the tax system. Vince then asked about inheritance tax which penalises unmarried couples. By this time there was audible snoring from all around.

At this point I fell to my knees and prayed, sobbing, to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the new LD leader to have some sense of what is interesting to people watching on this one occasion each week when we could get some headlines AND stuff the Tories, and to forget being steadfastly serious. I wonder if the Almighty FSM will grant my wish…