Bad news travels
James Forsyth 12:38pm
Context is all in politics and, with the government widely considered to be in big trouble, every piece of bad news is making waves. So, the Labour peer Lord Desai’s observation that "Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was" is going to be headline news for the rest of the day, ensuring that Brown has yet another bad news cycle.
Brown also can’t be too pleased with the Reuters preview of his day in Washington which, after noting his scheduled meeting with the three presidential contenders, says this about his meeting with the President: “He then goes to the White House to meet Bush, who shares the British prime minister's plight -- low popularity and economic problems at home.”
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Austin Barry
April 17th, 2008 1:18pmBrown is a man completely out of kilter with the zeitgeist: he seems like one of the gloomier characters from Dickens - Mr Murdstone perhaps. There is no humour, no charm, no levity, no charisma, no spontaneity, no empathy: just a kind of grim inert melancholy which his Cabinet colleagues would no doubt assert is gravitas, but which may suggest that some form of treatment from a non-judgmental healthcare professional is required, ideally in sheltered accommodation. We surely can't go on like this,can we?
Ian C
April 17th, 2008 3:35pmSounds like he is being measured for his (political) coffin by his own!