Was it Brown’s finest moment yesterday?
Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday to Citizens UK.
A crackingly passionate speech by Brown yesterday. It lacked the necessary commitments on issues like amnesty and child detention, but it was certainly more passionate than anything else he’s said recently.
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Great delivery. Bit crap on the substance.
Sorry to be obsessive about grammar, but “most finest” is incorrect. “Finest” is enough.
oops, good point. Now taken off shaza
Cameron Expenses
So this is the man who quite soon will be asking us all to make sacrifices for the good of the nation, most likely in the form of higher taxes, pay cuts, lost jobs, reduced pensions. The same man who according to the Telegraph “paid off a loan on his London house after he took out a taxpayer-funded £350,000 mortgage on his designated second home”.
Watch him squirm as Paxman grills him on the subject of politicians ‘over claiming’. Absolutely hilarious! So have a good laugh now and spread the good news because very soon the joke will be on us!
Analysis:
http://badconscience.com/2010/05/04/the-essence-of-politics/
yes, poor on substance when you rationally reflect. But if you were there in that hall yesterday, rational reflection didn’t have a damn thing to do with it, because politics in its purest form doesn’t.
Delivering a speech was never his problem but in the debates and out on the streets his facts-and-figures bombardment style does not work.
Barnstorming performance by Brown – it’s valedictory quality adding a certain pathos?
It was interesting hearing the comments from delegate regarding the Tories “Big Society” idea. All seemed rather negative as they know the problems of trying to run public services using volunteers.
One delegate said that the government should be doing more and not leaving the voluntary sector to pick up the pieces. Hardly a ring endorsement for DC’s big idea.
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