Smile, smile, smile

Jim

Is this Stanley Baxter?

AuldCurmudgeon

Creepifying.

Sally Chatterjee

So phoney. Which amateurs were hired to direct him? Why the grin when he's just revealing some rule changes?

The poor man just can't seem natural, it's not easy in front of a camera but this makes me cringe. He really is doomed, wait for a month on the campaign trail and the media will roast him alive.

GeoffH

Pish to the smile and body movements.

This man, only days ago, had 'more important things on his mind' than expenses, agreed with David Cameron at PMQs to an all-party meeting to sort MPs' expenses 'But only after the HoC Committee had reported later this year'.

Now, all of a sudden the man comes up with his own one-man solution and expects Cameron and Clegg to get into line.

Shyster, twister, crook, liar and bogus poser barely cover the man.

Chris lancashire

The Budget tomorrow must be really, really bad to persuade Brown to do this diversion.

Ann

No music, turn the sound off and watch...WARNING no hot drinks.

Roger Clague

Very funny. He s his own puppet.

Too little too late.

Mainly aimed at Tory 2nd jobs.

Peter Buss

Fraser - you'e dead right - the video is hilarious. What is NOT hilarious is the sheer contempt this man shows for Parliament by announcing this on YouTube without first discussing the issue with Cameron/Clegg and ensuring that the first they knew of it was on YouTube. Truly dreadful behaviour and tribalism at its very very worst.

Tattonwarrior

I feel sorry for him - Surely it must be somebodys job in number ten to point out that this comes across as a little bit, well, wierd...

Tiberius

As hard as I tried to concentrate on what he was saying, I just couldn't. It's now impossible to take him seriously.

I do like the "Ali shuffle", though. It must be a warm-up routine for his "Star Wars Kid" act which, no doubt, will be on YouTube once he's learned to handle his light sabre, and lost enough weight to fit into his Luke Skywalker suit.

Pip Gold

If anyone was in any doubt - this should clinch it.
My first thought was that this reminded me of that police academy spoof, when the police chief was standing at the lectern making a speech whilst a young lady interfered with him below the stage.
It then occurred to me that we are in despair that he is our Prime Minister - but imagine if he had become a doctor. Ridiculous jolly smile followed by "I'm afraid it is terminal" then "but the good news is you have over a week" followed by rictus grin and a cheery wave.
Utterly demented.

ken from glos

Cringeworthy indeed

Alex

Weird.

General Election. Now.

John

And tomorrow on Play School...

rmh

Fred the Shred has more credibility on MPs expenses than Brown has.

Just Ruined-Lunch

Now available for children's parties - St. Vitus the clown!!

I respect the position of Prime Minister but not this man.

Boudicca

Blimey - he's bouncing around like Bill (or) Ben. And what's with the manic grin when he talks about the Committee for Standards in Public Life? He really is very creepy. If he was my neighbour, I'd be warning my kids to stay away from him!

As you point out, this is an attempt to highlight (mainly) Tory MPs with second jobs.

We actually need MPs with a life outside Westminster - especially as Parliament only sits for about 25 weeks a year.

What is more disgraceful is the Labour plan to put Georgia Gould (daughter of Philip Gould) into a safe London seat.

Ms Gould is 22, straight out of university with no previous career or business experience of any kind. The last thing we need is are graduate 'politicians' who have never paid a penny in tax voting on how the rest of us should be governed and taxed.

The chances of Ms Gould actually representing her CONSTITUENTS - instead of just acting as lobby-fodder for Labour - are nil.

It should be made compulsory that any prospective Parliamentary Candidate should have paid UK Income Tax for a minimum of 10 years before they become eligible for Parliament and there should be no possibility of graduates who have never held down a job being eased into Parliament on the basis of their family connections.

boulay

clegg and cameron should get together and do a joint press conference today slamming brown for rejecting their invitation to hammer out a cross party solution and instead going alone for party political posturing.

James Burdett

Aside from the video which I admit is terrifying. I was wondering why now on this. There is no way that it is going to overshadow a budget. However if it is an exercise in sorting out loose ends in preparation for an election that would make somewhat more sense potentially.

paracelsus

The guy's a creep!

He is so disconnected from the world around him that he thinks that sort of performance is worthy of a British Prime Minister. It begs the question why his staff allowed this to be released in the first place. Scared or simply fed up of him?

Off with his head, I say.

chris

What planet does this species come from?

mac

In addition to his numerous other afflictions and habits, we now learn he's got St Vitus' Dance.

I'd like to see this pantomime dame performance split-screened with that other prime ministerial artistry in front of the camera, Heath's smiley-shoulder jerky jive . . .

Lord Boyders

I would love to see him announcing the outbreak of World War Three.

This should be shown without sound, but with a Cameron Tory policy outline voice over - as a Party Political Broadcast for the Tories, it would be the only one they needed.

Ethan Hurlington

is he drunk?

Nicholas

Literally another Stalinesque dictat from the bunker. And all his own idea to try to stem the tide of public revulsion at him and his lousy government. Deeply unsettling and I have no confidence that this peculiar creature will ever let parliament or the country decide anything.

Tom Pride

This is a joke, a spoof? Isn’t it?

Funny peculiar maybe but not so funny ha ha.

JGS

Truly bonkers. Folk like Straw, Johnson, Darling, Beckett etc really need to work out how to get rid of this plainly incapable PM. And then do it.

Man in white coat

You know what is truly shaming? That we have allowed this freakish weirdo and his crooked minions to rule over us for 12 long years. As custard-face Cameron can't do it, isn't it Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt's duty to send in the tanks?

blj

Hilarious!! Just a shame he is running the country rather than fronting 'You've been framed'!!

SJH

Funny how children want to be doctors, nurses, firemen etc rather than MPs. Has it ever been otherwise? Although it is a rather unfortunate admission from someone who presumably mets daily two children who live in Downing St with an MP. Perhaps having Damian McBride working next door had an effect.

At his Children's Christmas Party in 2004 he was asked "how much do you earn?" which suggests that the children he canvasses are a bit more worldly than he lets on (he answered that he didn't know- not very reassuring in someone who is making suggestions about MPs' remuneration and benefits).

Also, the pre-selection battle for Erith and Thamesmead rather undercuts his Blue Peter-style point about the need to overcome juvenile indifference to a parliamentary career.

Recusant

As if MP's expenses are anything to do with him. We are still supposed to be a parliamentary democracy. Government exists only as long as it has the approval of parliament; not the other way round.

peter reddington

This man runs the country, what else is there to say, now you know why we are up to our necks.

Diswiss

He should get some free therapy
from Dolly before he is struck off.

Mike, Brighton

The shame, the shame.
Can this laughable man really be our prime minister and share the same office as held by men such as Pitt, Disraeli and Churchill?

Have I awoken in some bizarre parallel universe where somehow a man spectaularly unsuited and devoid of both leadership and charisma has become PM?

Susan Hill

What was that Philip Larkin poem about something that brings the men in their long white coats running across the fields ?

Hawkeye

That is one creepy photo. I thought it was a montage!

I've noticed that when he uses a podium and straightens his notes in mid-speech, it looks like he is turning control knobs.

He is definitely the wrong man for the job.

Ivy Eileen

Excrutiatingly awful. Rory Bremner will make mincemeat of him.

But, seriously, Peter Buss is dead right. What a state of affairs when YouTube replaces Parliament.

an ex-parrot

Watched 30 seconds then couldn't take any more. Am posting via a seance...

John Page

Truly creepy. And wasn't he going to announce everything in the Commons first?

Can the Opposition stop the 2nd job proposals going through? Damned if they can't, damned if they do.

Will the proposals on ministers living in grace & favour homes apply to Speakers too? And what about home secretaries who choose not to occupy their grace & favour homes?

Of course the devil's in the numbers. But Nick Clegg has attacked the attendeance allowance as redolent of Brussels and we don't want their practices imported here, says the Lib Dem leader!

And, er, what about the public?

Cameron walked into this with his eyes open. He asked for a stitch up among the leaders and that's exactly what he's got.

But the Tories were too idle? stupid? to put their own proposals on the table at the time he made that suggestion.

Sadly, Brown's run rings round him.

Liz Brown

Good grief - what on earth was he on? was it legal? is he for real? I would laugh if it wasn't so serious - this lunatic is ru(i)nnig the country...............

zachary smithson

Oh my god.

I cannot believe that that man is the British Prime Minister.

What has happened to your country?

For shame Great Britain, for shame.

Chuck Unsworth

His profound insincerity is palpable.

Pat King

OMG he is almost as bad as Cameron. Yuk.

Nick

"I never meet any (young) people who want to be MPs....."

Well, apart from the daughter of Lord Gould, the son of John Prescott, the niece of Hilary Benn etc etc......

The Bellman

GeoffH makes a spirited attempt, but we exhausted many months ago our stock of words to describe the deceit, malice and sheer pettiness of this man. The English language in its printable form is now impotent before his bizarre antics.

James

It's beyond criticism. In some ways - definitely on a human level - it's pretty sad.

boulay

the clampdown on second jobs is going to back-fire fantastically as any remaining labour MPs after the next election will be the ones needing the second jobs, not tory ministers.

Denis Cooper

Why should my confidence in MPs, and in our system of Parliamentary democracy in general, be restored by this?

1. He makes his statement about MPs' expenses not to MPs, but outside the House of Commons.

2. He tries to give the impression that he, as the leading member of the executive, is stepping in to defend the electorate from the iniquities of their elected representatives in the legislature.

3. He proposes a system akin to that at the EU Parliament, where MEPs just turn up to join the queue and sign in to get their allowances, and then clear off.

4. He threatens that if any Labour MP argues about this, then the national party will step in to get him deselected, no matter what his constituents, or even his local party group, may think about it.

5. He insists that this must be "rammed through" now, in a tearing hurry, without any careful thought, even though these malpractices have been going on for many years, and he knows full well that they've been going on for many years.

So where does that leave the House of Commons, the dominant, elected, House of our Parliament?

Itself dominated by one dishonest and disreputable man, and his equally unsavoury henchmen.

David H

What on earth is going on?

Cameron and Clegg ask for a meeting before Easter. Brown says no. Then makes this spoof home video thing saying the complete opposite and throwing is diversionary party-political squabbles on second-incomes. The man is a disgrace and an embarassment.

Ken

Excruciating, puerile and contemptible.

More Brown dividing lines and desperate distraction politics.

Surely this is a matter for serious, urgent tripartite consensus between the leaders, or does the Demented One prefer government by You Tube?

Let's see how long it takes for some You Tube artist to satirise this excretion.

Maggie

Gordon Brown doesn't do normal.

Invicta

I don't know whether to cry with laughter or with pity. Where are the men in white coats when you need them? The man is both insincere and insane.

Charlie

man in white coat, you are right. WE allowed these clowns to remain for 12 years. WE were duped by their vision of utopia. WE failed to notice how dysfunctional they were (Bernie Ecclestone, Hindujas and tax raids all happened in the first few years) Shame on Britain. Hopefully we will have got in our heads once and for all:

The Labour project does not work.
It never has.
It never, ever, will.

So don't vote for them.

Barbara

Makes your flesh crawl, doesn't it?

David K

(a) Was someone tickling him?
(b) Was he wearing any trousers?

Mick

Can somebody get Jack Nicholson playing The Joker out of Number 10 and give us our old Prime Minister back? On second thoughts I'll stick with Jack.

BCEDWARDS

This is too funny! i nearly wet myself. shame this clown is also running our country.. i stopped laughing when i remembered that.

Jock

His advisors should have told him to put this out by by radio.

Michael Booth

zachary smithson

Just to clarify, if I may, that nobody actually voted for Gordon Brown (apart from his own constituency) and that he has been foisted upon our country by a political elite within the Labour Party... yes, we are ashamed to have him as PM and yes, we can do something about it when the General Election is called.

Diswiss

Truly embarrassing, not only for the whole Labour party but for anyone to admit he's our PM.

Can they get anymore desperate?

lady amelia

now now children, no mocking the afflicted (except its us who are afflicted with him and his nasty, nasty party)

David

So why the big panic today? It wouldn't be because he was scared of turning up at PMQs tomorrow would it?

The more one reflects on this incredible piece of political suicide the more one wonders about the judgement and character of the man in the picture, and the people around him. It truly defies belief that these people are in charge of anything, let alone a country.

oldtimer

Maybe MPs will have the gumption to reject his whole approach - on grounds of method (use of YouTube), content (Brussels style allowances) and dubious haste (after earlier saying he had more important things to do). The issue is more important, and needs better solutions, than this clumsy sleight of hand proposes.

Rejection would be a telling, and humiliating, vote of no confidence - one that even Labour MPs could support.

Margy

Absolutely hilarious!! Great entertainment!

Does he really believe people fall for performances like this?

Talk about fickle and insincere. The man's a nutter.

George Laird

Dear All

I have looked at the video and it is shoddy with the main thrust seeming to be an attack on the Tory second jobs.

This appears to me not to be about reform but rather about politics.

Aside from the car crash of Brown stumbing through this farce, you have to wonder what nuggets told Brown this was good enough to stick in the public domain.

He wants a vote on his proposals without proper consultation, so much for listening.

We are told that there is an independent committee looking at this but from the measures announced by Brown it seems that the committee is wasting its time.

This is another classic example of why Brown is unfit to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

If Brown was really interested in reform,; he would have stated that an independent body would be set up to deal with MP expenses and MP's employees.

At every turn; he fails the test.

Finally; Gordon Brown should stop these false attempts to appear friendly; we all remember that he refused to shake the hand of the Policeman in Downing Street after Barack Obama.

Brown doesn't do ordinary people.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

lipstick on a hog

Flip me, I need to go for a shower after watching that creepcast. "I'm normal, yes absolutely normal, nothing to worry about, nothing at all.."

Ivy Eileen

On second thoughts, he makes Berlusconi look a class act.

R

This is another typically cynical ploy by Brown; he gets to:

1. Distract attention from the wretchedly depressing budget that will come tomorrow;
2. Look as if he's doing things;
3. Possibly embarrass Conservatives over outside earnings (irrelevant to the issue of expenses that is of concern to the public).

Like most of his schemes it will probably prove self-defeating, it is clearly not thought through at all and motivated by short term political considerations; this predictably shoddy approach to serious matters should not surprise anyone.

The fact that he chose to make this announcement unilaterally, without working with the parliamentary authorities, and via YouTube, should be seen as scandalous but probably won't.

GeoffH

Notice also, how the only job aspirations he remembers young people telling him of are all in the public sector.

All in all, very telling that the only work he considers important or significant is in the public sector.

TrevorsDen

MPs expenses surely are a matter for The House not You-Tube?

2nd jobs - as I understand it he is calling for more details not abolishing them. So .... so what?

Anyway if Tories win they can change things again. No need to get het up - just abstain (on principle of it being against House rules) and encourage labour MPs likewise.
Its pointless. Like Brown himself really.

The video? So this is how you speak to young, hip, people - I never knew.
The eyebrows remind me of Roger Moore, the smile of Jack Nicholson's 'Joker' and the shoulders of Lurch the Butler. The tie is not done up properly and the coat collar half way up the neck.

The shoulder shuffles and other movements are because he cannot wave his arms about (he gets a few in anyway) so he is in a kind of straitjacket.

Saw a clip of him giving some talk the other day and it was like a game of passing the parcel - without the parcel.

BTW - the latest poll shows labour back on 28 so the last 2 weeks have cost Labour between 2 and 4 points with libdems picking up on that.

Maguire on SKY was saying that labour were double this lead in 97, but as he well knows those polls were overstating labours lead and methodologies have changed.
This is a good realistic lead for the conservatives. Floating voters are switching to them and left voters are dabbling with libdems.

Dewi

Try watching it this way:

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=hAspEPVQECE

It certainly improves it!

uda

Next he may change his name to Gordon Boyle.

Heironymous Bosch

Wow. That's awful. He might have been more convincing if he'd stuffed his cheeks with cottonwool and mumbled a bit more, like a fictitious Mafia Don.

He skated over the committee work which, he said, is 'an independent review into the system - so we can make permanent changes', whatever that means.

But he's just suggesting 'interim proposals to restore
peoples confidence'.

So, the committee is to make permanent changes but the interim proposals are to restore peoples confidence.

In what and/or who?

The smiles and grimaces are because someone off camera is interfering with his Balls (and perhaps his little Mini Cooper).

DarrellB

After his election defeat in 2010 he can pick up the Joker role from the late Heath Ledger in the next Batman film. A bit of make up, longer hair-perfect!

Tim Carpenter (LPUK)

This was both side-achingly funny and very very creepy.

The transitions to smiling were disturbing. PG13 material.

He really is the Bogeyman.

PS uda: Next he may change his name to Gordon Boyle.

Unlikely. He has not got talent.

Verity

Geoff H - What an acute observation! You're right! In Gordon's world, no one wants to be an investment banker or a dress designer or work on the front desk of a big hotel.

Scallywag

"Going around the country, I've been struck..."

So that's where he's been for the past week. Silly me. I thought he was hiding in his bunker smashing up Nokia products.

John Lea

Brown reminds me of politicans like Heath and Nixon: he's a tragic figure in a way - a serious man, an intellectual, socially awkward and completely unable to appear natural in front of the camera. Quite rare in a modern politician.

Casual Observer

I wonder what colour the sky is on Brown's planet...

David Ossitt

Everyone is laughing; all seem to find this very funny, but it is not funny.

We the people of this country now have a very serious problem.

Our Prime Minister is insane; possibly the pressures of work have tipped him over the edge, he is obviously quite mad.

This poor man is ill; he realy needs help, somebody who truly cares for him, probably his wife, should take charge and get him first class psychological help.

The Queen should call on the Privy Council for their help and guidance as to what steps should be taken to remove this man from office.

If he was a horse they would have shot him by now.

The Genius of Brown

What an obnoxious man..purely doing this now to put David Cameron on the back foot, but like everything Brown touches, it will go wrong.
Firstly the attempt to embarrass those with 2nd jobs: after the next election, hopefully if the nation has any sense, there will be a thumping Tory majority , so all those well paid ministers jobs held by conservatives. It will be the labour MPs with time for second jobs, and what a joy to have all their earnings exposed, and connections to positions when in Brown's government. So shot in the foot GB.
Then daily allowance...the vast majority of Labour MPs after the next election will be from the North and Scotland. Ghosh it will go down well that their daily allowance will be the same as those from Oxford! Second foot shot GB.
Then what figure will GB suggest( and my goodness Cameron and Clegg would be daft to offer any suggestion here after GB has tried to steal a march here)...whatever it is it will enrage most of the electorate who will see £62k per annum as a reasonable salary sans expenses. So whatever figure per day it is let it be GB's suggestion X 170 days sitting, tax free.Then gross that up at 40% to highlight total income. Talk about pouring oil on a fire. And this man runs the country...no wonder we are in such a mess.

steve

0:42 Brown jerks forward as if someone has performed the Heimlich manouvere on him and released a fish bone trapped in his gullet.

Allan

After a performance like that, although for me it was to cringeworthy to watch all the way through I really don't understand why anyone would still say they would vote Labour at the next GE.

I now find it impossible to listen to a word that this man says, he is all about partisanship and dividing lines.

It is now time for Cameron et al to really show this man up for what he is instead of running scared. The man has no idea about economics or the real world and it is about time people were made to understand this. It should not be too difficult, Cameron et al need to change their language and start talking in the way your average person understands.

The Lakelander

I can't help wondering whether he put someone else's teeth in this morning?

Craig Strachan

I wonder how many takes he needed to get it so perfect?

Oscar

Should be set to music - perhaps to the tune of "I'll do anything"? Prime Mentalist indeed.
BTW Verity - sorry I didn't answer your question on the other thread. Just to clarify matters, I didn't "spit out" the words "far right", I just thought it was an accurate description of TGF UKIP. I was struck how he was playing into the Labour smear agenda. I have a lot of respect for many people I consider to be on the 'far right'. Dan Hannan for instance. What I object to is the endless disrespect TGF UKIP shows to the Conservative leadership.

biggestaspidistra

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Why are MP's to be paid for showing up? Is that not what their salary is for?

Oscar

Does this mean Diane Abbott will be sacked from her job on This Week? We can only hope.

Phil

If his smile is battery driven I suggest they get gold seal quality next time.The contrived delivery was about as sincere as a David Brent bonding session.

Watervole

The Joker, and just as disturbed.

Tom Pride

Just sat through it a second time (showing it to someone else). It is so bad that I wonder if this is the first sign of the departure of McBride. “Prime Minister, err, we need a fourth take”. Explosion, camera goes flying, Nokia misses target. McBride’s gone, where is Tom Watson? No one left at No 10 close enough to him or confident enough to put a stop on it, so out it goes. Well maybe. Just a thought.

Verity

Oscar - "What I object to is the endless disrespect TGF UKIP shows to the Conservative leadership." Well, you can include me in that statement. I heartily dislike David Cameron. I think he is as false as Tony Blair, although not as clever at hiding it.

Paul B

Anyone else notice the likeness between Brown & Crusty the Clown from the Simpsons .D`oh.

Paul B

Why is it that he equates, Doctors,Nurses, Teachers & Fireman" to jobs that make a difference. How about Tesco check out boy and girls, car salesmen, dare I say bank staff. Why is it considered more virtuous to be in the "caring" public services and not in jobs that pay for those public service. Just wondering.

Johnnyboy

That's put the tin lid on it... surely?

Bexleyite

That's a £99 M&S machine-washable suit he's wearing. I picked one up once at M&S and put it back on the rail.

His has been mashined-washed at least once.

Cheapskate.

timholden

You should not laugh at a Sith.

Neil

Anyone remember the Yes Prime Minister where Hacker is being given training in talking directly to camera? What's the point of satire?

Tankus

was this the best one .....of how many takes and cuts ?

beyond parody

Fraser

has he got a leaky drip of nitrus oxide, or is it the most visible bi-polarity in human history? Nurse!

john miller

Well, at least one aspect of Socialism has worked.

We get this for free.

In the 17th century people paid to go into Bedlam to see the lunatics.

It's just a tad unfortunate that he is actually our beloved leader.

Jane

Two possibilities here:

Animation lessons from Sarkozy
or
Someone is controlling him... this leads to the next question..Where have they got their hand? Might account for the sporadic grimaces!

Brown study

Beyond parody.

hadrian

One has to wonder at the timing of this immediately prior to a crucial peace-time budget during immense strains on the public purse.
One also must openly wonder if Brown's own expenses sheet is all that admirably frugal!
As for his performance on camera, the most deliciously ironic slice for me was when he was preumably lamenting the fact so few young people aspire to enter Parliament nowadays- yet the line was delivered with an accompanying grin that for all the world looked like one of proud satisfaction at such a fact had been achieved under his reign ( and , of course, Tony's) Priceless!

Boudicca

Can I suggest to any "Teccies" planning on patching in a tune that they go for 'They're Coming to Take Me Away (HaHa)...

Should do nicely.

The Manse

I once thought that Blair had given true meaning to the word 'disgusting'.

David H

1) First PMQ question from Cameron must be to ask who suggested this video as the bets way for the PM to publicise his sudden wave of ideas on MP's expenses. Will he take "full" responsibility, or will he resign someone else?

2) I wonder what Dennis Skinner thinks of his leader now?

3) Is the second job thing just to catch Hewitt, Milburn, Byers etc?

Constant reader

Does he often wear a blue tie?

quite scared

He looks like one of those scary clowns that you see in Stephen King horror films.

I think it is his wholly unnatural ability to represent a smorgasbord of emotions ranging from 'The Standing At The Back And Looking Stupid Party' MP in Blackadder 2, to Hannibal Lector, and back again to 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' in the space of a few seconds.

I truly cannot believe that this maniac is our Prime Minister.

Wrong. Very wrong.

Michael Fowke

He comes across in the video as utterly insane. Smiling randomly for no reason. No one voted for this man and he is running the country!

Canary Wharf Rat

This ranks alongside Steve McLaren talking Dutch/English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90
Gordon, oh Gordon, time to call it a day. We no longer respect you, Go see Dolly for some therepy.

McRaker

This must surely be a last ditch attempt to stimulate the economy by creating a national upsurgre which will fill the rising demand for buckets, sickbags and other such receptacles in this time of great need. I can only hope that suitable tax breaks will be available on products required by those who need them when fear strikes somewhere beneath their already broken hearts.

biggestaspidistra

I had to watch it again. What was it that Dan Hannan said........ "and when you talk in that wooden and perfunctory way -- you sound like a Brezhnev era aparatchik giving the party line",

adam

is this an advert for more labour mps?

David H

Slept OK haveing seen the film, but I still can't believe it.

Was this really built on a waffly point about dissappointment that no "young people" aspire to be an MP? Who does he think he's kidding? The usual group of politically ambitious wannabees will always be there even if we paid them diddly squat and asked them to buy their own bath plugs and movie downloads.

Incidentally, why no mention of footballer and hairdresser as career aspirations?

Tranny by gaslight

Surely this qualifies for a Max Headroom mashup.

Anyone willing/able?

StevenSpeilberg

Oh my god... do you think they've actually it shown it to him?

Wonder what his wife said... she must really have it in for him if she's seen that and let it go public.

Probably got both Balls & Harman going "superb... that's a take"

What are those chicken lunges with his head all about?

MisterE

Surely this was one of the out-takes of his clip, destined for the cutting room floor until someone mistakenly uploaded it instead of the proper version??

Either his staff are now having a laugh at his expense, or they've all completely lost it! Still, thanks for the laugh Gordon - I guess you can always fall back on comedy when you're booted out of office...

D-503

My god this is political pornography and seriously creepy, I can't believe they let this out to the public. I'm going to have a shower.

Ollie

It has been done

Gordon on Britain's Got Talent

http://the-red-rag.blogspot.com/2009/04/gordons-got-no-talent.html

penfold

Remember that Yes Priminister skit when they film his TV address?

life imitating art...

Sue Taylor

I can't believe this video. And this is our Prime Minister?
Does he know what he's done by
making this video?

Sue Taylor

Have just watched the second video. Is this man real?