Mr Floppy gets it in neck for a flip remark
JUST one word. That’s all it took. David Cameron must be kicking himself, for yesterday he made his first big mistake at PMQs. He used the word “flip-flopping”.
It may not sound much but its utterance had an incendiary effect on the chamber. Labour MPs pounced on it like a howling pack of coyotes. Then Tony Blair did something to Mr Cameron that he has not managed to do before: he savaged him.
It was like watching the scene in a David Attenborough programme when the lion, which has been lolling in the grass for ages, finally gets off his haunches, runs like the wind, flies through the air and fastens his jaws into the flank of the wildebeest.
“Now we see the true nature of the Prime Minister,” David Attenborough would be whispering from behind some grassy hummock, “for there is ever only one true king of the jungle.”
In my opinion, the outcome was not quite so clear cut. But, as Mr Cameron has hitherto been given the benefit of any doubt in these jousts, perhaps the pendulum is over-compensating. In any event, what is the point of New Labour buttering up Murdoch if there is not some kind of reward at the end of the day?
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