Will Brown's next interrogators be the public?

Chris lancashire

I suspect you are right - he won't risk it. But if he did I confidently predict it would last just one day: Brown is a coward and couldn't take the flak.

Maggie

The Piers Morgan Love-In came over like a particularly excrutiating episode of The Office. I can't imagine people all over the country rushing to buy tickets for a repeat performance of such a phony can't-bear-to-watch-it pantomime. And I can't understand the comparisons between the death of Brown's daughter and the death of Cameron's son. If, eight years after his son's death, Cameron weeps on television for electoral purposes then the situations will be comparable, until then they are not.

Mark Cannon

Brown didn't fare too well when he phoned Jacqui Janes. Yes, she and the Sun came across badly, but Brown was quite unable to bring the conversation to a close and just had to let her go on and on. Mixing with the public is dangerous and needs skills which Brown patently lacks.

Vulture

Any public appearences by the Incredible Sulk in the GE campaign will be confined to closely controlled, minutely scripted outings among the carefully-selected Liebour faithful - similar to that event in the East End the day after the electorate administered a mighty kick to the Bruin behind at the Euros in June.

No danger that they will let the dysfunctional monster loose among normal people. He's just too bloody weird to be allowed out in public without a straitjacket.

But the Piers PR job is the opening shot of the GE campaign. The World's Worst Broadcaster, James Naughtie, confessed Liebour partisan, added his peashooter just after 7am today on Today when he 'interviewed' ( actually an extended interruption) Boy George abt a half-baked policy which sounded as if it had been dreamed up by the Boy on the back of an
envelope in his limo en route to the studio.

(Some nonsense abt giving public service workers control over co-operatives : an ill- thought out idea that sounded like something Tony Benn dreamed up in the 1970s rather than a convincing Tory policy. Judging by Osborne's defence of it, it needs...ahem...more work. (Ie: Junk it quick before you look completely ridiculous).

Give it a listen on Play Again all you Camerloons. Not sure what was worse, the WWB's disgraceful anti-Tory bias. Or the Boy's tongue-tied, utterly inadequate response. In the real heat of an election campaign, if he can't do better than this, he will melt. It's time the Tories discreetly told the BBC that they will suffer for their bias if, despite all their best efforts, the Tories win.

Liz Brown

Would those voters be the same ones as used by Tony Bliar? The ones bussed in from Liebour Party offices and made to stand around waving banners? The same adoring public that were for some extraordinary reason, to be found in different parts of the Country?
Gormless is reputed to be demanding that the viewers to the Leaders's debates reflect the Govt (ie heavily biased in Liebour's favour). He is trying to orchestrate the questions, for which he is already in rehearsal with bad Al (a la Morgan interviw). Are those the sort of electorate that gormless is going to "meet"". Sorry, this Voter is not that stupid

Graham

Brown seems to have avoided the more serious political interviews/programmes with an audience dimension; if I'm right, Brown was the only top cabinet minister not to appear on Question Time or R4's Any Questions. It has always surprised me that the media hasn't made more of this...Perhaps in the election Brown will also finally agree to be interviewed by Paxman..?

Ghengis

"Will Brown's next interrogators be the public"
Surely the question is, how can you interrogate such as he, who is totally dedicated to never providing a reply relevant to the question asked.

oldtimer

I think it very unlikely that he will risk the equivalent of Cameron Direct. When Blair did his "public" meetings, my recollection is that the audience was all vetted Labour party members and supporters.

PS I did not watch Brown/Morgan. Instead I watched real people struggling to earn a living, and get their children a good education, on the BBC 4 documentary about the Darjeeling narrow guage railway and those that work on it.

toco

What odds on Piers Morgan and Alistair Campbell receiving dodgy peerages for their respective parts in the great deception?It is unlikely any bookmaker will be prepared to lay odds.

Holly ......

£30 a pop where I live.
2005 amount so maybe it will be more this time around.

Watt Tyler

He will do what Cast-Iron did at that university the other day. Bus in his support so that he doesn't get troubled by any tricky questions.

Conservative election victory = crap little people reverting to type and keeping the little country crap

Naomi Muse

The public may well be the next interrogators of Broon but it will matter not a jot.

Broon does not answer questions. In fact, Broon would not be able to answer questions if he tried.

Seen it too often, the sidestepping of questions, not just in the House, but face to face and the closing down of the grimace that stands in for a smile, as the portcullis of dislike crashes down on Broon's face and he says the inevitable, "It was a good decision." to what was patently obviously not.

Waste of time questioning him.

As to interrogation, the term implies a bit of a two way street of information and questions. There would be no two way street. Broon simply does not know how to do that.

Dorothy Wilson

For heavens sake! We are electing the leader of our government who will have to steer this country through difficult times. We are not electing someone to star in a Mills & Boon novel.

EyeSee

You have to say that anyone, anyone contemplating voting for New Labour must have a vested interest. If you had any care for the country as a whole (or if selfish, could only personally do well in a successful economy) then you wouldn't, couldn't even consider this bunch of lying failures. Brown blubbering on telly with his mates or not. (This corruption in politics really is getting outrageous, but then we tolerate Piers so what do we expect?). Quentin Letts describes Brown as 'intellectual, awkward', which would be acceptable you'd think for a politician, dedicated toiling behind the scenes. But even when Brown was invisible at the Treasury, his malevolence marched on. If he was intellectual, presumably he wouldn't have done much of the damage he has? I think many Westminster commentators should think before writing of political intelligence. A well educated chemist, who
decides to murder people is not someone to admire, no matter what. So don't project genius onto these careless wastrels without putting it in context.

2trueblue

There is a great dispatches of Brown/Balls/Whelan shown at 1am years ago coniving to pull a fast one on the BoE just after Lieboore got in. That would be a great repeat to have on right now. Shows Brown/Balls?whelan for what they are. Wonder how one could get hold of it? It is really interesting, great stuff for the Tories to take clip bits out of.

Ian C

If they have any sense they will steer well clear of any attempt to repeat last night's show.

It was a pathetic attempt to humanise the man when the country is in need of someone with super-human qualities and skills to dig us out of the very deep ditch he drove us into.

Last night proved that he is not that person, partly because it succeeded in its objective of humanising him. It he proved how utterly dull and unambitious he is and so not that person that we need, in spite of the trite Morgan making it very easy for him to elevate himself to that level of aspiration.

The Masked Marvel

Public opinion of Gordon Brown is almost beside the point. Sadly, this election will be won based on whether or not the BBC and their media cohorts can whip up enough fear and hatred of what they consider to be the bad old days of Mrs. Thatcher.

Paddy

It was excrutiating viewing - I could only bear to watch 20 mins.

Ghengis

No doubt he recieved a retainer and rendered an expense claim. I wonder how much it cost us taxpayers?.

Marcher Baron

I'm with Vulture and Liz Brown on this one. The real public wouldn't be allowed within five miles of Brown. He'd be fed with planted questions to which he could reply with his stock phrases of "doing the right thing", "Labour investment vs Tory cuts" etc. Tractor production up, up, up!

Karla

I didn't watch. I knew what to expect and was sickened by it. Clearly he's now the laughing-stock of many from a multitude of backgrounds! A very bad move, if you ask me.

TrevorsDen

If this were anything like then lobby then a waste of time. If no follow ups and no 'informed' independent audience then just usual propaganda.

But Cameron has been doing this for years hasn't he ??

Nicholas

I've asked before and I'll ask again because none of you lazy journos are picking this up. Is Brown presenting himself as human in his and New Labour's own time or in the taxpayers time as PM?

If the latter I do not think it is in the remit of the PM's job to present himself as human and I do not think public funds should be spent on party political campaigning, whatever form it takes.

Once again New Labour blur the lines between party, government and duty and you people just let it go.

Cassandrina

What was most interesting was radio 4 "You and Yours" programme this week in which they revisited people who many months ago were told on the programme by Brown personally, that he would look into their cases and they would be contacted.
I thought - Oh No! not another wonderful Gordon, and Gordon will fix it propaganda programme.
Imagine my surprise when none of the 3 people re-interviewed did not receive any practical help, though one admitted to being better informed though not helped.
Has the bbc developed a 5th column trying to tell us the truth - that we already know?