Brown counts on the Sarah Effect

Satnam Singh

This won't alter the Jonah Effect.

Ted Tedford

Saddam Hussein used human shields as well, and it didn't do him much good in the long run.

Mike, Brighton

Ugh! Sarah is foolish to allow herself to be used as a political figure. It will end badly as the media look for dog-shots and unflattering coverage as they did with Cherie. And Cherie was not a political figure in the sense that Sarah has become....

David

Funny, I thought Prime Ministers didn't campaign in by-elections. It seems Brown isn't just going by himself now, either...

Paul B

Just shows how bare faced Brown is, after his implied criticism of DC in his conference of about 4 weeks ago. The man is a hypocrite. Nothing surprises me any longer of the depths he will sink to, to retain power.

David

"My family aren't political props"

Snigger.....

don

Lucky that he doesn't use his family as political props, or you could be under the mistaken belief this was a cynical stunt by a desperate man

Mick

Prop - Prop - Prop - Prop

mac

One day spent there is hardly 'spearheading' the campaign, but that's the least of the hyperbole we'll hear from the Brown-supporting media.

The BBC will be in sycophantic overdrive and, barring some extraordinary development on the US election trail, the story will be the lead item on all BBC bulletins that day, in accordance with Mandelson/Campbell requirements.

We'll learn that, as she's from Fife herself and has known the challenge of one-parent familyhood, Mrs Brown is able to empathise with the 'hard-working families' and mothers of little children in Glenrothes.

Ignored in the carefully spun adulation, of course, will be the reality of her middle-class (her mother remarried a professor), English upbringing at her trendy-lefty (Camden Girls) school and a degree from Bristol University.

Perhaps the Glenrothes electorate will itself recognise this as a cynical and patronising exercise in politicking. Perhaps not, in which case I trust that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP grande dames will put the boot in.

Mrs Brown is now perfectly fair game.

Disgusted of Fife

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his wife for his ego.
St John ch 15 , v 13( apart from two words)

patently

Yes, it's official then; Brown has no shame.

Pete, Scotland

Gordon hiding behind mummy's skirt?

Do anything to get elected!

Will sacrifice anybody to keep power!

Jeeze, the media should have a field day with this.

Flashback

McCavity now hiding behind his wife's skirt, while he stays at home to write another chapter of his forthcoming 'Courage II' book

Verity

She was also a partner with that Hobsbawm woman in a far left pr firm. Just because she's fat and plain and wears ill-fitting clothes doesn't mean she's a shrinking violet. She's probably more of a communist than Brown is.

TrevorsDen

Labour have form on this. In the far off days when brown could walk on wate, at least as far as the PLP were concerned, and Blair was a pariah - Blair and Brown were paired up to parade round the country in the last general election.

Crude stunt ..

David

Trevor, what you mean that little clip of Blair dabbing Brown's nose with ice cream and then licking it off was a setup?! ;)

Marian C

I'm not surprised at all that the spineless creep has chosen his wife to "Spearhead the Labour campaign”; after all, he’s got to blame someone when the results come in; so why not let ‘her indoors’ get it in the neck! He's such a hero

Pete, Scotland

No Flash Gordon, No Super Gordon.

Honestly, and I mean this most sincerely, it's just me and Sarah that does it all.

Sarah is the new face of New Labour.

Why? because she is new, she is fresh and she is every bit as desperate to keep the publically financed good life for as long as every other MP in Westminster.

Chuck Unsworth

Brown, unelected by the Labour Party, sends his unelected (by anyone) wife to campaign on behalf of a candidate (likely unelected) who is a proxy for Brown, who will be unelected in a couple of years.

Did anyone elect Mrs Brown?