The Clangers are back. And not just on television. At PMQs, both the party leaders tried to embarrass each other with solecisms, exaggerations – and, yes, clangers – which they’d dropped in the past.
Ed Miliband led with the cost of living crisis and said ‘record numbers are now working part-time’. Cameron retaliated with a Miliband prediction from October 2010. ‘The government programme will lead to the disappearance of one million jobs,’ Wrong! A million jobs have been created.
Miliband brought up his pet-policy, the energy bill freeze, and accused Cameron of supporting the Big Six fuel giants.
A price con, not a price freeze, said Cameron. And why had Miliband not parked our bills in the chiller-cabinet while he was Energy Secretary?
‘Ah. Their new tactic’, crowed Miliband. ‘Blame green levies.’ He quoted Cameron in opposition. ‘I think green taxes as a whole need to go up’
Cameron can hardly escape this charge.
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