Loan sharks got a biff on the nose at PMQs today. Cameron wants to cap the sum that each of us can borrow. Ed Miliband was puzzled. This is a U-turn, he said. When he proposed to cap energy bills Cameron called it ‘Marxism.’
Cameron shrugged this off. And he gloatingly invited Miliband to ‘congratulate us’ for pushing through an important reform.
Tricky for Ed. When the government filches your idea, you can’t complain without seeming to oppose your own position.
Miliband moved to the looming winter crisis which he seems to be looking forward to. Last year an additional 31,000 deaths were recorded. All the PM’s fault, apparently.
‘Any excess death is a tragedy,’ said Cameron, appearing to take responsibility for the wipe-out. But he had his own charnel-house to unveil. No fewer than 36,500 corpses had been generated by Ed Miliband, he claimed, when the Labour leader was energy secretary.
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