Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Battlelines are set over Afghanistan at PMQs

One of the most divisive PMQ's for some time as the party leaders fell out over spending in Afghanistan.

A sincere anger from David Cameron who when quoting the views of several generals following Gordon's Brown's Chilcott appearance was met with taunts that they are all Tories.

He continuously asked the Prime Minister to disassociate himself from those remarks.He called it a "disgraceful slur" and accused the Prime Minister of not having the "character" to stand up to his backbenchers

Gordon meanwhile deflected any criticism by confirming that military spending was increasing under Labour.

But then scoring a large own goal when mentioning that it fell under the last Tory government forgetting that in fact that was when the cold war ended.David reminding him that the Tories won the Cold war whilst those on the benches opposite wore their CND badges.

So on the day that the platform for the general election was set,the battle lines are once again drawn.Is this going to be the issue that the Tories will concentrate on? And is Lord Ashcroft to which Gordon Brown insisted on mentioning over and over again going to be Labour's main issue.

Let battle commence

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