David Cameron quotes Benny Hill song, but it's not the PM's greatest hit (Guardian)

Prime minister drops Winner putdown and plumps for 'fair-dairy land' reference
from Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West)

There was Angela Eagle sitting on the Labour frontbench, as if waiting for
another mildly condescending remark from David Cameron ? "let it lie, pet, why
don't you?" perhaps. But the prime minister used a pop culture reference even
older than the one he used a week ago, when he quoted Michael Winner's "calm
down, dear." He was replying to Kelvin Hopkins, a Luton Labour MP who had
quoted predictions that half a million more people are going to lose their
jobs in the public sector, and another half million in the private sector.

Did the prime minister not realise that this would bring a collapse in the
housing market, which in turn would lead to a collapse in the Tory vote, and
the return of a Labour government? Would he now care to say goodbye to many of
his colleagues?

Mr Cameron said he had thought Mr Hopkins came from Luton. "But it sounds like
he is from some fairy-dairy land!" Fairy-dairy land? What was he on about? But
as I puzzled, a colleague reminded ...

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