Thursday, 15th January 2009

Damming with faith praise

James Forsyth 11:44am

“If you compare him with an average Russian bureaucrat you're laughing."

A hilarious--—perhaps unintentionally so—assessment of Gordon Brown from Alexander Lebdev, who is reportedly the new owner of the Evening Standard.

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HFC

January 15th, 2009 1:34pm Report this comment

James, Do you really mean damming, as in creating a barrier? Mmm, might be a useful activity...

Ben

January 15th, 2009 1:40pm Report this comment

Damning

Ivy Eileen

January 15th, 2009 1:41pm Report this comment

Are you sure ? - "I think people are discovered in circumstances. I think for the crisis period he (Brown) has been a good manager... He's hardworking and he's got values" - this sounds rather flattering to me ... and there's no suggestion he's being sarcastic.

Oh, by the way, do you still need consent under the Industry Act (or its successor "consumer-friendly" statute) to take a majority shareholding in a newspaper ?

(And don't you mean "damning" in the heading - sorry , James).

Hysteria

January 15th, 2009 2:04pm Report this comment

damming..?

Chris

January 15th, 2009 2:32pm Report this comment

Shurely you mean 'jamming with paint sprays.' Early lunch, was it?

Tariq

January 15th, 2009 3:30pm Report this comment

That's "damning", darn it. Unless I'm missing the pun.

Nicholas

January 15th, 2009 4:43pm Report this comment

" . . . He's hardworking and he's got values"

Wish he wasn't so hard working - he might not inflict so many bad ideas on us then. And Hitler and Stalin had "values".

The man is a freak.

Andrew Cadman

January 15th, 2009 5:39pm Report this comment

Old Boris Brown does look like a Russian bureaucrat come to think of it...the solid, square slavic features...the dour demeanour...

...and certainly with his belief in unreconstructed socialism you could expect to find him standing next to Breshnev in the Kremlin overlooking one of those endless November parades.

Perhaps the Tories should have him on a poster in a Shapka!