New media, same old message
Brace yourselves. Gordon Brown has hit YouTube with another video message for his adoring public (watch it after the jump). To be honest, it’s not a bad as his last comedy effort – he’s stepped out of the bunker, for a start, and there’s less rictus grinning – but it’s hardly going to set the Internet alight: The most striking thing is how Brown is using the new media to relay the same message we’ve heard a thousand times before. He kicks off with the line, “We’ve got to take action to get out of this downturn, and you can’t cut your way out – you’ve got to invest your