Though Cowards Flinch

Apparently it is now perfectly permissable to use any catchphrase from popular culture at PMQs without causing any offence whatsover, because it’s all light-hearted. 

Ed Miliband is therefore completely entitled to direct some or all of the following towards Cameron at PMQ’s next week:

1.  Look, he’s oppressing me/Your mother was a hamster etc (Monty Python)

2.  You’re fired (A Sugar)

3.  Listen carefully, I will say this only once (Allo, Allo)

4.  Exterminate! Exterminate! (Dr Who)

5.  Yada, yada, yada (Forgotten where that’s from)

6. Bovvered?/Wha’ever (‘Vicky Pollard’)

7. You Plonker (Only Fools and Horses)

8.  You bastard (Peter Griffin, Family Guy)

9. Victory will be mine (Stewie, Family Guy)

10. Fuck off out of the Chamber (Gordon Ramsay)

I’m sure readers better briefed on televisual matters will have other suggestions.

On no account, however, should Miliband use the popular exhortation to action often used in Only Fools and Horses:

This time next week, you’ll be millionaires.

This would be inaccurate and highly insulting.