‘Weaponise, weaponise, weaponise.” David Cameron was so beside himself with anger that Ed Miliband had told the BBC he would weaponise the NHS that he felt obliged to turn himself into an out of control red-faced Dalek and repeat the word on every occasion possible at prime minister’s questions. The threat of weaponisation was now so great, he insisted, that he was left with little option but to weaponise it himself in order to defend it from weaponisation. The NHS is now officially at Defcon 1, with a full invasion of spin-doctors imminent.
All that Miliband – looking suspiciously like the disgruntled waiter in the new Shaun the Sheep movie – had done to precipitate this was to ask how many of the A&E units Cameron had promised to keep open at the last election were now closed. “It is very simple,” he replied. “One of the most respected political journalists in Britain, Nick Robinson …” Several Tory front-benchers did their best not to appear astonished at the BBC’s political editor being described with such affection. “… has said that weaponising the NHS is a phrase that the leader of the opposition uses. Will he apologise for that appalling remark?”
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