Ian Dunt's review of Wednesday's PMQ at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blogs/talking_politics/cameron-is-out-of-control-but-miliband-lacks-a-killer-touch-p168356.html
correctly describes the Cameron's appalling performance but is not an admirer of Milliband's style. Well he should be. Here's our response"
Ian, I know you don't like Milliband. But at least you recognise that Cameron doesn't know how to handle him, Cameron can't bully Milliband like he did Brown, because he presents himself as a clinician who isn't personally affected by Cameron's over rehearsed personal barbs. That's why Cameron has dropped a lot of the personality based attack, it just doesn't work, and is now getting angry, partially because he has little command of detail. This is why Cameron felt he had to reveal the Big Society Bank Deal ( which is only a loan from dormant accounts) in PMQ before Osborne, as he had no other punchline. Cameron is intuitively a bully, and you can show passion without ranting and raging. Ok so Milliband's knife sometimes misses, but there is no doubt that Cameron is rattled. Remember Cameron's bemused resonse to Nick Clegg in the first national TV debate. Its all very well presenting an "intuitive and naturalistic presence, a statesman like pose" but he hasn't the substance to support it unless he's been set up to be the soloist in total command of the stage. Yes Milliband's best PMQ.
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