He points the finger at Labour's former chief spin doctor.
That there are again protests at refineries, albeit of a different nature, ought to run a chilly finger down Labour spines.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2010 general election the Tories cobbled together a coalition and set about finger pointing: Labour is to blame for the country's economic mess, they can't be trusted.
Thomas Unterrainer, a teacher from Nottingham, also pointed the finger at Stephen Twigg, Labour's education spokesman, claiming he had failed to "differentiate himself from Gove in any way".
Cameron doesn't need their affection, he just needs to sow anxiety about a fragile economy slipping through inept Labour fingers.
So when the Times, which increasingly seems like official cheerleader for New Labour, fingered Shrum, Brown's people should have ignored it.
Instead, more voters continue to point the finger at the last Labour government than the current coalition.
Labour sources fingering Torsten Bell for Moses Miliband wheeze.
MPs expressed anger over the latest delay, with the Prime Minister pointing the finger of blame at the Labour Government headed by Gordon Brown.
With an election looming in May 2015, one might then have expected the chancellor to tap-dance to the podium.Instead sobriety (and a bit of finger wagging at the spendthrift Labour opposition) was the order of the day.
