PMQs sketch: Three senior politicians are accused of mass murder

Time travel came to PMQs today. The leaders discussed what year it will be in 2020. The answer, naturally, isn’t 2020. Ed Miliband quoted the OBR and claimed that the Coalition plans to shrink the state to the sort of slim-line figure it last sported in the 1930s. Rubbish, said Cameron. His diet will trim the national waistline to the dimensions it enjoyed in the late 1990s. Kenneth Clarke wittily chipped in to remind us that Blair’s government only hit this modest target by adopting the budget limits of the previous Tory administration. In which the chancellor was K Clarke.

That was funny. Not much else was. Miliband’s gnashers are currently locked around his favourite soundbite: the ‘1930s vision’ of the Tory party. His grudge experts and blame connoisseurs evidently like the atmosphere this conjures up. And the class-war visuals – with top hats set against cloth caps – will be useful too.