Are we customers too demanding? Have we been spoilt by previous parliamentary dramas, insurrections, invasions? The furious message discipline, the barracking, the terrace-end aggression. Today was a half-hour of this and that – 72p for nurses, Cornish enterprise zones, hospital roofs falling in, some nonsense about fracking, a Trans charity trustee posting porno pictures online. It was a Business Questions medley. A confident, in-control, self-respecting PM with an 80-seat majority would have walked out.
The backbenches were united on one central idea: Don’t mention The Fiscal Event. That must have succoured their leader, but equally no Conservative voices lifted to sing the PM’s Growth Song with its one note and three-word lyrics. If you wanted to generate a drama out of the crisis – you might be helped by that sullen absence.
