Quickly Forgotten
Gordon Brown made his last major public appearance before the Christmas break at his monthly press conference earlier today.
Although it annoys me immensely that politics has become so shallow and trivial, this needs to be said: Gordon Brown should NOT smile in public. Ever.
To see Brown switch on and off that smile, if you can even call it a smile, is an unsettling and slightly frightening experience. I can imagine children all over the country scurrying behind the sofa in terror after catching a glimpse of the PM’s unique rictus on the Six O’Clock News. Either that, or they’ll be expecting Doctor Who to appear and unmask the alien imposter and rescue the real PM.
For the sake of the children if for no other reason, please don’t smile Gordon.
Anyway, Brown’s line today is that:
Many of the things that have been written about for the last few weeks would be forgotten quickly
Is it just me or is that very dangerous attitude to express publicly? It may be a cliché but isn’t it possible that this could be looked back on as his Jim Callaghan moment? Crisis, what crisis?
Brown didn’t say those exact words, of course, but neither did Callaghan. It woz the Sun whot spun it. It’ll be interesting to see how the Sun report Brown’s comments tomorrow.
On the plus side for Brown, for all the economic worries, the doom-mongering and the opportunistic spin from the Tories, the UK in 2007 is nothing like the UK in 1978-79. They had proper great big disastrous crises in those days. (And when we got home, our father would slice us in two with a bread knife. If we we’re lucky!)
All the same, Brown’s words, particularly with regard to the huge data loss and the economy, could come back to haunt him.
No blogging tomorrow as I’ll be down in that London protesting against Christmas (with permission from the Metropoliticians).
redpesto said,
December 19, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
“Either that, or they’ll be expecting Doctor Who to appear and unmask the alien imposter and rescue the real PM.”
Well, he *is* big enough to be a Slitheen in disguise…
Philip said,
December 19, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
He’s also considering new coal-fired power stations to help the environment, so if we’re lucky we might get a good old 1970s miners’ strike. Unless he plans to import the stuff from Russia, of course.
MerkinOnParis said,
December 20, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
Liked the article, but the mantra of this government for long enough has been ‘time to move on’ or ‘get over it’.
The Northern Wreck fiasco is different because it is only going to get much worse.
‘Famous for 15 megapixels’ has some great stuff on this.
http://tinyurl.com/26gt9f
Must run out and get my bumper value 20p Sun now and see what they said.
about the non-crisis.
Better still, I’ll go on the News International site and find out first/instead.
Bloggerheads said,
December 21, 2007 @ 9:57 am
Decrease the surplus population!…
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