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The first Prime Minister's Questions of the decade yesterday afternoon was the return of the unedifying spectacle of two men, neither of whom wanted to be there, both giving a performance so bad it made the new film Cats look watchable.Jeremy Corbyn, a blunt tool at the best of times, gave the newly emboldened Boris Johnson nothing to worry about, despite the small matter of escalating tensions in the Middle East, the day after Iran had carried out retaliation attacks on US military bases.Johnson - who, let's not forget, already has form with Iran over his fumbled response to the imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - easily fended off Corbyn's attacks by referring to the opposition leader's own tainted relationship with Iran, through his paid-for outings on the theocracy's state TV.But beyond the specifics, what was clear yesterday is that Corbyn's heart just wasn't it. The man who has opposed western military intervention throughout his career from the backbenches could barely muster the enthusiasm to question what evidence there was to support the American attack, let alone quiz the Prime Minister on his whereabouts over the ensuing days or why he thought we had been left out of the loop beforehand.The fire in Corbyn's belly has gone out, and the nation will now have to suffer the worst kind of notice period - three-plus months of going through the motions every week until his successor is finally announced.Many observers feel that PMQs has been irrelevant for years, a cartoonish theatre that both sides use to create clips for social media rather than a genuine question-and-answer session. Corbyn has been particularly bad, never adapting his questions to the response he had just received, or even to news that might have broken on his way into the chamber. It
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