Truce ditched. Peace deal scrapped. The parties agreed to revive Punch and Judy at PMQs today.
Ed Miliband opened with bankers’ pay. RBS is seeking to give top traders bonuses of 100 per cent. This requires government approval.
‘Is that acceptable?’ asked Miliband.
Cameron was ready with his greased-piglet routine. He squirmed free by ignoring bonuses and focusing on overall remuneration. Any attempt to hike the total payroll, he said, would be opposed.
Miliband pursued the point and Cameron got all hoity-toity. He said he didn’t need a lecture on banking from the man who ‘gave us the biggest bust anywhere in world with RBS,’ and who ‘now rises up with all the authority of Reverend Flowers.’
Miliband’s long face drooped. Next he fluffed his lines and bungled a statistic about council homes.
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