It must be Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau season at the Commons’ film club. A string of
odd political couples has stalked stages across the land this morning, supposedly pronouncing
the merits or demerits of the alternative vote. David Cameron and John Reid were the oddest: the Prime Minister’s well-heeled insouciance contrasting with his lordship’s winking
Glaswegian charm.
It’s good fun, without being hugely constructive. Cameron and Reid joked that they agreed on nothing beyond FPTP, before embarking on a distended muse about party politics and that old canard ‘Britishness’. Things were little better for Ed Miliband, who spent a large portion of his conference listening to Vince Cable explain why he wasn’t resigning from the government.
There were some arguments amid the pageant.
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