Too nice?

cuffleyburgers

But what about the tax payer?

Austin Barry

That picture: is it beatific or is he about to be abducted by aliens?

EyeSee

Well that's a new twist. I thought he shouted and threw things? Then hugs people I suppose, to make them feel wanted. Can we break away from this fascination with the Westminster bubble. We need substance politicians, not the self serving money grubbers we currently have. It is not all a game of 'who's most popular'. They are there to run the country. Can't we get Brand to phone Gordon?

mac

"Too nice", eh?

He's been called 'courageous' and 'intellectual' too by the sycophants club. Let's add 'elegant', 'well-groomed', and 'courteous' to this Humpty Dumpty litany, shall we?

Evan

Would Blair agree?

r101

He has got to be the worst prime minister in our country's history.

Jim

That's the first time I have heard anyone call Steve Richards 'balanced'

Ray

... And Tony Blair was a pretty straight kind o' guy.

Pentlands

"Too nice" ? This is the man that wanted to abolish the 10p rate which would hit the lowest paid ?

He must be a very nice man........

Tim

Are we talking about unelected Brown? The worst PM of the century who will tell any lie , large or small, to justify his absolute failure as both Chancellor and PM - Got rid of boom and bust - did'nt say that either did he!?!

Archimedes

'too nice'? or 'willing to wound yet afraid to strike'?

Ted Tedford

Yet another view, not from inside government, but from a poor, benighted soul who must endure his 'leadership', is that he's an arrogant, evasive moral coward with a bullying streak, and a pathological inability to admit mistakes.

Henry Rogers

We have a seriously weird prime minister and an unrealistic commentator at the NS looking on the bright side. I like the photo here though; was that really how it arrived at the Speccie or has it been "improved" a bit?

Marian C

There is nothing nice at all Gordon Brown; he's a liar, a bully and a raving nutter.

Kev G

That'd be the balanced "Are you proles bright enough to vote for Ken?" Steve Richards, would it?

In his next balanced article, Steve explains why Russell Brand has too much old world courtesy to find a new berth on the Antiques Roadshow.

Hereford

What's with all these pictures of Brown and Darling with halos? Have you got a nulab mole (expert in subliminals) working for you in your web department.

Pete Hoskin

Henry: I can assure you, no "improving" took place here. The halo's genuine.

Frank P

What has Richards got on you guys? Or perhaps you should be running a New Statesman blog rather than this one? Get a room, for God's sake.

Henry Rogers

Pete,

Then whoever shot the photograph was taking the proverbial with a vengeance. It's cruel satire and makes Brown look even crazier than many of us here think he is. People like that hear voices and I carefully move away from them when waiting for a train at a tube station.

If the picture was supplied by No 10 they need their heads read for not spotting the implication. If by some other agency then they have their hearts in the right place.

Pursuing the same theme the NS picture shows Brown at one of his high spirited moments; at PMQs the sullen gloom seemed to have descended again. I await tomorrow week with baited breath.

ifabloke

He's not nice - he just doesn't trust anybody. Better the devil you know...........