Cameron pummels Brown in PMQs

My, but David Cameron was good today. Assertive, contemptuous, energetic and all over Gordon Brown. Today’s unemployment rise is the highest since records began (in 1972) so he had plenty of ammo. His point was strong and simple: nothing Brown has done is working.

Unemployment is getting worse, all the time. Did this not show how stupid it was for Brown to claim Britain was best-placed to weather the recession? I’ll say this for Brown: he is nothing is not audacious. Britain’s unemployment is better, he said, than France, German, Japan and this country called the “European Union” (whose figures are dominated by France and Germany). He should have added: “But give me time” – seeing as UK unemployment is rising faster than any developed country apart from Iceland. 

Brown added that much is being done to help those on the dole – £1.3bn being spent that the Tories would not spend. Dividing line.