Have you ever come across a party balloon while nursing a pin in your hand and been unable to overcome the irresistible urge to pop it?

In PMQs today Jeremy Corbyn was that balloon. Theresa May was that pin.

The Labour leader was inflated with righteous indignation as he savaged the PM for destroying landing cards of Windrush generation migrants in 2010 when she was Home Secretary which would have proved when they arrived in this country.

Mrs May produced her gleaming pin with a flourish.

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The cards were actually binned a year earlier, she said. When LABOUR was in power.

Tory MPs roared. And I mean roared. I doubt there's been a sound like it since England won the 1966 World Cup.

Mr Corbyn deflated, understandably thrown off his pre-scripted stroke.

Bravely he tried to float skywards, but with the air gone out of him there was only one way to go and it was down.

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He persisted: "It was under a Tory government and she was Home Secretary at the time."

He asked how many Windrush descendants had been deported . Mrs May said she was not aware of any.

Mr Corbyn banged on about bogus immigration targets, hostile environments for migrants, people treated as criminals.

He tried to stab Mrs May with a pin of his own by accusing her of being "callous".

It certainly hurt her. And Mrs May saw red. Red as a red balloon.

"I will not take that," she barked. "I will not take that from a man who allows anti-semitism."

The empty rubber of Mr Corbyn's balloon was ground firmly into the dust.

For light relief the Speaker turned to North Cornwall Tory MP Scott Mann who conflated chemical weapons in Syria with housing in his constituency.

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I'm not entirely sure why.

But he did not do much for his local tourist trade.

Raising the prospect of barrel bombs landing on Cornwall will now surely have holidaymakers looking to book elsewhere.