To be fair to Mr Cameron at this juncture, the question from Nadine Dorries, she of the rather large ego, was a rather unusual one to come from your own side. Dorries is frustrated at the lack of progress with her own abortion advice bill...and it clearly shows. Basically nobody is interested. Cameron said she was a 'frustrated' woman ...to loud guffaws all round.
She complained in her question about Libdem influence as did another backbencher on Camerons side of the house. So there is some considerable frustration, to use that word again, amongst Tory backbenchers. As it says in the feature linked above there, Dorries stormed out.
All got too much for her?
But Cameron yesterday on the return of PMQ appeared bulletproof. Very much on top of his game and very much now it seems the politician of the current era. Here he reads the riot act to his opposite number...
But what of Labour...?? After the long summer break when politicians of all hue were out there in exotica working on their tans of one hue, the Labour tiger didnt roar. It wimped about like a pussycat. Dear old Ed flabbergasted in good style but it reminded me of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, with the sad populace throwing little rocks at the impregnable soviet tanks, and all efforts harmlessly bouncing off. The Labour frontbench looks too weak all round. In the Tony Blair era there were considerable politicians on the Labour frontbench. They were good.
Now the cycle has fetched up the uncharismatic Ballses, Mrs Balls with an awful haircut, unwise, and the Eagleses, and the one with the very black hair..I forget her name. Its looking weak, no heavy weaponry on show here. No one to dent the Cameron armour.
Picture shows Ed trying his best. Flanked by Mrs Balls( Yvette Cooper) and her bad haircut and the redoubtable Harriet Harman.