Cameron gets butch with Miliband

Not for the first time, one of David Cameron's PMQ insults offers us an unappealing glimpse into his brain. In comparing his relationship with his chancellor with that of the two Eds, Cameron was initially on to something: Balls and Miliband famously do not get on, and the discord on the Labour frontbench is certainly worth exploiting. But then, with the schoolboy triumphalism that undermines even his better lines, he said of Milliband: "He's got his third choice as shadow chancellor and apparently he still has to bring him his coffee every morning! That's how assertive and butch the leader of the opposition is! " Butch? How long has it been since anyone used this word to describe someone other than a lesbian? How long has it been since people stopped doing even that? Since when is being butch a desirable trait in a politician? Are they all stevedores on Cameron's side of the house? If Cameron really meant that Miliband is a tremendous sissy because he allegedly buys Ed Balls a coffee now and then, that's pretty childish, and more than a little odd. It makes you wonder what the relationship between Cameron and Osborne is really like.