A Dad’s Army kind of debate

Gordon Brown is talking about people being “compelled” or “forced” to work. GB said “no life on the dole” and DC came back at him saying you’ve had a long time to achieve that. A good line from DC – I’m not sure which country 
 

A menacing swarm of spinners are already gathering behind me… Lord Mandelson is surrounded by 30 photographers and he is ready to pounce. I take that back – he has started – he briefing … you may have noticed the debate hasn’t finished but he knows people have deadlines and is keen to help. 
 
Continuing the Dad’s Army theme, Gordon couldn’t be anything other than Private Fraser and has asked everyone to just get used to it. The other two try to portray him as some sort of mixture of Private Godfrey and Warden Hodges.

The danger for Nick Clegg is that the other two portray him as Private Pike (or even worse, perhaps, the Rev Timothy Farthing). He has yet again avoided that and put in a very polished performance.