With Dick at Chequers you'd think things would be fairly quiet in Coalition Crescent this weekend. Nadine Dorries saw to that by attacking the prime minister on Radio 4's Today programme over his farcical plan to move council house tenants on after five years to encourage them on to the property ladder. Unfortunately, Ms Dorries's alternative proposal, to allow people to buy their council properties as a reward for good service, didn't take into account that this was how the problem of insufficient social housing came about in the first place. Heigh-ho, another own goal and an unnecessary bruising for Cameron.
Cameron, meanwhile, was trying to suck off up to the President of Pakistan with tea and crumpets at Chequers. Zardari lapped it up, ignoring the floods, diplomatic tensions and insurgency in his own country, not to mention the media's attention on his son [gay, much? - Ed]. All this was a walk in the park for Cameron, unaware that stories were about to break in London regarding the Coalition's plans to give millions to the Church of England, while taking away money from communities wishing to look after their own pubs, news of leaked advice to Michael Gove about the capability of schools to sue him over broken promises and Vince Cable saying he's not a happy bunny. Aaah, Lib Dems - who'd have one, eh?
And then the BBC heard about the Tories government wanting to scrap free milk for nursery schools. You couldn't make it up, could you?
