Prime Minister's Questions? It's just a self-congratulatory show
What a show this PMQs is , Prime Minister’s Questions? My foot, it is just an almighty congratulatory show. But what was more interesting watching the talk afterwards with Henry Zeffman and some finance MP’s. It did also show the government’s disarray in the question of how to finance the Defence requirements. The Strategic Defence Review is now so overdue it might as well be shelved altogether as the situations in the world have changed considerably. The other mentioning by the Treasury spokesman was the possibility of raising taxes. As he said we need to go to the country and find out what people want. Excuse me? Who did we vote for to sort these things out? This point was not really taken up but frankly it seems to me they have completely lost the plot. They are at loggerheads, hundreds of MPs want more social services. More people on benefits and they just don’t care whether that cost comes at the Defence budget or any other budget. You hear about all the ...