PMQs sketch: Cameron is a buffoon who might as well eat his own manifesto

At PMQs today, the Tories’s energy policy went bi-polar. The Conservatives now seem to touch both extremes of the debate. For eight years they’ve presented themselves as a gang of happy tree-huggers who applaud every green subsidy going. But today David Cameron announced his plan to ‘roll back some of the green regulations and charges’.

John Major started it all. Yesterday he lurched back into front-line politics by suggesting that energy companies should pay a windfall tax this winter. Otherwise, he said, the poor will have to choose between starving or freezing to death. Number 10 called this bombshell ‘interesting’.

Ed Miliband asked David Cameron if John Major was now a Marxist. ‘Has he been claimed by the red peril?’ smirked the Labour leader.

Cameron stood up, to indignant jeers, and said that he too favoured intervening in the energy market. He wanted consumers on the lowest tariff. He wanted more competition too.