In case anyone hasn't seen this image on Twitter already:
"What David Cameron said actually seems perfectly reasonable if you're a comic book supervillain."
https://twitter.com/BrigonChomhgail/status/59882827345232691...
"What David Cameron said actually seems perfectly reasonable if you're a comic book supervillain."
https://twitter.com/BrigonChomhgail/status/59882827345232691...
Though not the finest hour in word choice; The old idiomatic antithesis "The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law" is in effect what he probably meant.