David Cameron came up with an impressive response to the journalist who cheekily asked if he regretted having once described Nick Clegg as ‘his favourite joke.’
“We’re all going to have things we said thrown back at us … if it means swallowing some humble pie & eating some of our words, I can’t think of a more excellent diet with which to provide the country with good government.”
A cynic might say that advisers had spent hours coming up with that, having seen it from a mile off. But I prefer the innocently optimistic response of believing it was quick witted & off the cuff.
The more you think about it the more these two young men have come up with a breathtaking attempt to solve our political malaise. Even if it does not work, it has shown that it is no use just carping & sniping all the time.
If anything it is going to be even more interesting to watch how the press respond to all this. They were the ones who looked like the worn out old has beens at the press conference, with an outdated framework (& contacts book) for ‘The Story’
And it will be great fun to watch how the BBC decides what constitutes balance in discussion when sometimes the counterweights are on the same side.
