David Cameron's patronising putdown (Guardian)

When the prime minister told Labour MP Angela Eagle to 'calm down, dear' was
it a bad joke, or a sexist bullying?

The Chamber is well used to extraordinary displays of boorishness during prime
minister's questions but even hardened MPs were taken aback by David Cameron's
performance on Wednesday, when (to recap, in case you have somehow missed a
moment that within minutes was swamping the Twittersphere and within an hour
had spawned nearly 400 news stories) he was challenged by Angela Eagle, shadow
chief secretary to the treasury.

It was not a particularly earth-shattering challenge ? he had said former
Labour MP Howard Stoate (whom he was enlisting in his increasingly ragged
defence of Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms) had been defeated by a Tory at the
last election; she was pointing out, in the vociferous way required when a
roomful of supposed adults is shouting at each other like sleep-deprived six-
year-olds, that Stoate had in fact retired, rather than been defeated, in
order to return to his job as a GP. "Calm down, dear," said Cameron, failing
only to pat her gently on the head as he said it. "Calm down. Calm down ...

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