Cameron ‘unwilling to keep PMQs vow’
David Cameron has admitted he has not managed to keep his pledge to “end Punch and Judy politics” – blaming the fact that calling the Prime Minister a cycloptic psychopath has proved a better strategy.
“I will absolutely hold up my hand…this is a promise I couldn’t be bothered to deliver,” the Tory leader said.
“Look, what would you do? You can spend all day formulating policy and listening to the petty concerns of voters. But when your spin doctors tell you that portraying the Prime Minister as a hapless, lonely weirdo is an easier way to win the general election, you jolly well need to sit up and listen.”
He said prime minister’s question time was “an adversarial system” adding: “Of course we don’t have a policy worth a candle. When standing up and making thinly veiled innuendoes about the Prime Minister’s sanity has proved a sure-fire way to get ahead in the the opinions polls, who needs them?
“I do accept that I take a rubbish approach. It is rubbish. I don’t make any apology for that.”
Posted on April 29th, 2008 at 7:06pm under Cameron, Tories
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…portraying the Prime Minister as a hapless, lonely weirdo…
Will achieve the impossible: it will make me feel sympathy for Gordon Brown.
Anyone facing Gordon Brown at PMQs should be ruthless, regardless of what they’ve said or not said in the past. He wouldn’t be doing his job if he didn’t hold the PM to account over his failures.
Cameron? Doing his job? Holding the PM account? A five year-old could tell you this government is shit. It’s Cameron’s job to convince us that he’d be less shit. Right now? It ain’t working for me.