Pathetic: Angela Eagle and George Osborne trade PMQs jokes

Last Updated: December 10, 2015By

Wasn’t it all just too cosy for words?

Maybe I’m on my own here, but I want PMQs to be used to hold the government of the day to account – not to trade jokes with its representative.

Maybe Angela Eagle seems more comfortable at the Dispatch Box than Jeremy Corbyn, but she has had more experience than him as a frontbench MP – and fared less well at performing the required function.

Oh, and Osborne’s claim that “we have a leader who is respected abroad” – to whom was he referring? This Writer’s experience suggests that all the other national leaders think David Cameron is a hanger-on, a toady or a twerp.

Labour’s Angela Eagle poked fun at David Cameron’s EU reforms as she traded jokes with George Osborne at Prime Minister’s Questions.

With the PM away on his EU renegotiation tour, the shadow first secretary of state clashed with the chancellor for the first time, quoting Tory MPs unhappy at his progress.

Mr Osborne questioned the wisdom of quoting backbenchers in a dig at the unrest in Labour ranks.

Source: Angela Eagle and George Osborne trade PMQs jokes on EU talks – BBC News

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5 Comments

  1. Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) December 10, 2015 at 2:48 am - Reply

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  2. Jeffery Davies December 10, 2015 at 5:38 am - Reply

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  3. Jonathan Wilson December 10, 2015 at 9:06 am - Reply

    This was my response to the gushing review PMQ’s received in the Graun.

    While blows were delivered, and thrusts parried. It felt like having the supply teacher in… noisy, braying, bombastic, and no one listening to a thing anyone said while cheap political points were scored.
    No real questions, no real answers… but a jolly good wheeze had by all – while we, the poor plebs, have to live with the cuts and floods watching a disgusting display of over privileged school kids playfully slap each other before returning to the tax payer subsidised bars to quaff champaign and eat caviar together at our expense.
    I am not ****ing impressed, at all.

  4. Daniel Margrain December 10, 2015 at 1:21 pm - Reply

    Time the Eagle landed on the Tory benches.

  5. stephen brophy December 14, 2015 at 1:40 pm - Reply

    What was she hinting at when she was rubbing her nose? Has some tory been at the powder?0

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