Quote of the day
“The trouble is Gordon Brown just takes the job too seriously. Tony Blair wore the job lightly but Gordon gets up half an hour before he’s gone to bed. He hasn’t slept for 10 years and he only speaks English as a second language, so what chance has he got?”
- Rory Bremner
Rory rather lets Brown off lightly to suggest he’s a victim of his own dedication to the job.
If he’s a victim of anything, it’s his own deviousness. He clawed his way into the job by the only means he could, destabilising Blair from within. What keeps him awake at night is not the shape the country is in, but his ‘legacy’ and the thought that one of his collegues is likely to knife him the way he knifed Blair.
BTW, isn’t it strange that a lot of what Micheal Howard said at the last election (and got roundly bashed for) has turned out to be true. Country spending too much, Public services wasteful, Vote Blair get Brown, Immigration is too high etc. I wonder whether the voters of Britian now regret not voting for him instead of Blair, at least they would have got what they voted for.
I hadn’t thought about it like that – Howard vs Brown. I wasn’t a big fan of Michael Howard but he surely can’t have been as bad as Brown.
Brown is by reputation a control freak and I think you’re right to lay the blame squarely at his own feet for this. It didn’t have to end up like this – Smeargate, the economy, the deceit, the bottled election – he’s responsible for the lot.
It must be galling to Gordo to have to communicate in English.
Here’s a question that needs asking of Brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGdS63iSN1c
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