Brown doesn't believe in choice, at least when it comes to coffee
James Forsyth 6:26pm
This is how Tom Clark, a former special adviser who is now a leader writer at The Guardian, starts his superb piece on Gordon Brown. The whole thing is well worth reading—it is not a screed but a measured appraisal of Brown’s strengths and weaknesses.
“When Gordon Brown used to hold meetings at the Treasury, coffee would be served with the milk already added. I always thought that summed up his style. Such was his eagerness to get on to business that he had no time for the 20 seconds it would take to pass round the jug and the biscuits, a ritual that broke the ice across the rest of Whitehall.”
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John
April 19th, 2008 8:31pm Report this commentDid someone say he is NOT a pathological control freak?
Bill (Scotland)
April 19th, 2008 10:03pm Report this commentAnd not much good if you prefer black coffee! ;)
Oscar Miller
April 20th, 2008 10:26am Report this commentTypical Brown - has to micromanage the coffee. And probably ends up with something no-one wants.
Perry
April 20th, 2008 12:26pm Report this comment“ . . . Brown doesn't believe in choice, at least when it comes to coffee . . . “
Rubbish! – of course he believes in choice.
HIS choice!
gerry
April 20th, 2008 5:00pm Report this commentI have no idea why Brown so loves the fecund idle. In contrast, his treatment of the working low-paid is appalling. I know the former is the mainstay of the National Lottery, an entirely voluntary taxation.
Jennie
April 20th, 2008 5:43pm Report this commentBrown is committed to 'taking children out of poverty'. To do this he is putting the low-paid with no children, and pensioners aged 60-64 into poverty.
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