I groaned audibly when David Cameron challenged Gordon Brown in Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today.

Cameron fell plop into an elephant trap when he complained about Brown’s dishonest phrase, “British jobs for British workers”. Brown simply retorted, “Who is not in favour of British jobs for British workers?”

Elementary, my dear Cameron. In fact, Nick Robinson warned this might happen on The Daily Politics a few minutes before.

The challenging of that simple slogan placed the Opposition Leader in Peter Mandelson’s lap, just as John Major was once depicted as a ventriloquist’s dummy perched on the knees of an enormous Helmut Kohl. Oh, dear!

No doubt Brown was cynically lying when he said it, but the point is a valid one, especially in dangerous times like these. Cameron should have given the impression he is on the workers’ side, if for no other reason than it was the skilled workers who supported the Tories under Margaret Thatcher.

So, is Cameron endorsing EU law and court judgements that effectively allow discrimination against qualified British workers in their own backyard? Shouldn’t he be creating merry hell against this outrage?

Apparently not.

I was determined to keep a little distance from Simon Heffer’s piece in today’s Telegraph, but Cameron’s performance took down the barriers.

Syntagma will punish the Tory Leader by voting UKIP in the European elections in June.

We will, of course, vote Conservative in the General Election, but with the fervent prayer (if it’s not illegal now) that he changes his tune when in Number 10.

Dear oh dear.

John Evans