A Choice Of Browns

[poliphilo]

There was a choice of Browns on TV last night- Gordon on ITV and Derren on Channel 4.  Gordon had put on a lot of slap and was batting his eyelids like a wee girl at his blokey mate Piers Morgan, in a format derived from that ancient, wet handshake of a show- This is Your Life.  I had thought it my duty to watch, but I couldn't stand it- I really couldn't- and besides- only a touch of the button away- Derren was making like a 19th century spirit medium and showing us how to get a table to fly through the air- which was a lot more fun and in far better taste.

Gordon's friends think we'll vote for him if he pretends he's not a crocodile. They could well be right.  I hope they are- because however detestable New Labour has been I've little doubt that Cameron and the Tories will be worse.

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[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I found a site that was talking about Gordon Brown's bullying behaviour but was put off it when they started accusing him of "discounting the Irish vote" on Lisbon. I don't like it when we're used by Eurosceptics.

Then I found a Simon Hoggart article in the Guardian that made me laugh but shed no light.

Then I found this link:
http://www.roguegunner.com/2010/01/gordon-brown-is-bully-boy.html
and yes it does sound like he has an anger management problem! I heard rumours about flying printers too. I hope they weren't laserjets.

Re Iraq I think his crime was to go along with it rather than initiate it. I still don't understand what motivated that man Blair to take an unwilling populace into a pointless, destructive war all for the sake of a man who was a mere son of a WASP, who was manifestly inferior in intelligence and sensitivity even to him.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They all went along with Blair on Iraq- with the exception of Robin Cook who is dead- even though most of them had their doubts. If Cabinet members as senior as Brown or Straw had had the guts they could have stopped the whole thing- but they didn't. That makes them as guilty as Blair in my book- perhaps guiltier, because at least Blair believed in what he was doing.