HMS Brown is sinking

A commanding performance from Cameron today. There were large cheers, and larger expectations, on the Tories benches as he stood up. His first words were an improvised response to the opening question, placed by Labour poodle Khalid Mahmood, demanding that ‘the allegations against Sir James Crosby must be investigated.’ ‘So,’ said Cameron, ‘they can even plant questions at short notice.’ He invited the Prime Minister to admit ‘a serious error of judgement’ in appointing James Crosby to the FSA. Brown waffled about awaiting the outcome of various investigations and Cameron came back forcefully calling Crosby ‘the man who was going to sort out mortgage market’. His footnote that the Prime Minister had knighted Crosby released the unappetising stench of cronyism into the house. Brown was forced to admit that Crosby was no longer a government economic advisor and he downplayed Crosby’s influence saying it amounted only to the writing of two reports.