Brown's got his notebook at the ready
6:21pmA self-standing quote from a Telegraph story entitled "Gordon Brown takes part in children's reality show":
"Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby is the Sir Alan Sugar figure in the 10-part [children's TV] series Election, which is being filmed at the moment for CBBC.
[Gordon] Brown will meet the victor in the final episode and hear their thoughts on democracy and the political system. He is expected to take notes and glean inspiration from the encounter."
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Simon
September 11th, 2008 6:33pm Report this commentIt is pathetic that he has to stoop so low. I cringed when Blair did the sketch with Catherine Tate. This will be infinitely worse.
mac
September 11th, 2008 6:42pm Report this comment" . . . He is expected to take notes and glean inspiration from the encounter." This line doesn't appear in the BBC's own puff on the programme - credit to a spirited sub on the Telegraph?!
mitch
September 11th, 2008 7:34pm Report this commentGordon brown and elections surely shum mistake.
Chuck Unsworth
September 11th, 2008 9:05pm Report this commentAnd this is the action of a Prime Minister of this once great nation?
Yes, I think it is.
Verity
September 11th, 2008 9:11pm Report this commentThis blog is going off the boil. The interim between submitting comments and them being posted is lengthening and the whole atmosphere is turning turgid and sleepy. Four hours is now the norm, which time lag destroys the immediacy which is the point of a blog.
Pete, Scotland
September 11th, 2008 9:19pm Report this commentIs this the sort of thing our Prime Minister should be doing?
How about a Rainbow Special where he explains his 'economic recovery plan' to Zippy!
Nicholas
September 11th, 2008 9:33pm Report this commentSays a lot about the desperate lunacy of this "government" that Chairman Braun would seek ideas about democracy and the political system from a child.
The whole thing sounds like more BBC propaganda to brainwash the young on behalf of the Labour Party. Are the children taking part members of the Hitler Youth?
JimBob
September 11th, 2008 10:43pm Report this commentThis is going to be the most excruciating TV since the Comic Relief episode of the Office
Tiberius
September 11th, 2008 11:57pm Report this commentImmediate appearance of posts would be the advantage of a forum format, Verity, but you wouldn't register for one.
Hysteria
September 12th, 2008 4:11am Report this commentVerity - I agree - there is no technical reason why we cant have a real time chat environment. (password access, moderated etc etc )
Waiting for Ike .........!
Anglica
September 12th, 2008 5:13am Report this commentNail on the Head again Nicholas (@9:33)!!! That's it - taking shape ever so quietly.
Austin Barry
September 12th, 2008 7:26am Report this commentSurely meeting the Great Helmsman, all gloom, doom and galloping grimness, would act as aversion therapy for any child contemplating a career in politics.
Faceless Bureaucrat
September 12th, 2008 9:20am Report this commentDidn't they recently remove the Premier of Thailand for appearing on a TV show - I wonder?....
mark c
September 12th, 2008 10:30am Report this commentperhaps he should turn up to some of the lessons first.. citizenship anyone ??? maybe GCSE economics, but not the A paper .. too tricky
Gordon Musgo-Soon
September 12th, 2008 11:59am Report this commentIf this is truly a reality show, it'll be his closest encounter with reality in some time.
Hereford
September 12th, 2008 2:12pm Report this commentI can imagine the poor little mites, clinging to their mum's skirts, pleading, "Mummy! Don't let the nasty man get me. Please!!!!" As Brown's cadevarious grin is turned on them.
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