Brown gets through PMQs

Would you Adam and Eve it? The Prime Minister actually seemed to enjoy PMQs today. With the whole of Westminster abuzz with whispered plots and covert knife-sharpenings perhaps the Commons seemed a haven of openness and civility by contrast. Brown got off to a lousy start though. He stuttered and fumbled through the names of the war dead, scuffing consonants, garbling regiments. And he finished the tribute on a weird note of grandiloquent defiance as if he were writing the epitaph of Gordon Brown, RIP, and his clique of apostles. ‘These men are exceptionally great men. And their service shall not be forgotten!’
 
Cameron got up. What an easy job: Six penalties against a goalie with no arms or legs. But he couldn’t find the angle. He told Brown that ‘his ability to command his cabinet has simply disappeared.’ The Blears resignation ‘is a direct challenge to his authority.’