Where’s Gordon? Round Up
With the local election campaign kicking off, Guido Fawkes has been doing a daily update showing whereabouts Gordon has been off campaigning, and what he’s been up to. At least it keeps him out of Westminster dreaming up new ways to rob us of our hard earned. Here’s the round-up so far:
Day 1, April 3: Gordon was mumbling at a press conference about having only “30 days to save devolution”. He left behind a typed crib sheet with phrases such as “Tony Blair has always agreed with me in the difficult decisions I have had to take and I have always agreed with him.” He also left his handwritten notes behind which amused all graphologists.
Day 2, April 4: Gordon was in Edinburgh launching a Fabian pamphlet with Douglas Alexander making the case against freedom for Scotland.
Day 3, April 5: Today Gordon was off to Gleneagles, promising to “give every child in the world a better chance - freed from poverty and liberated by education.”
A few months ago UNICEF reported that British children were the unhappiest in the Western world. Youth unemployment is higher now than it was in 1997. 15% of British school-leavers are functionally illiterate. Bit early to be claiming “mission accomplished” at home?
Day 4, April 6: Speaking at a joint press conference with Jack McConnell, the Scottish First Minister, Mr Brown accused the SNP of ducking questions.
Speaks from back of a bus to (ironically) anti-democratic communists condemning anti-democratic racists about “Hope not Hate”. Video here.
According to the Guardian “Our cheery chancellor of the exchequer’s bold makeover as a hip, contempo dude has, it seems, a wee way to go yet. Appearing with Celebrity Big Brother runner-up Jermaine Jackson on the Mirror’s anti-racism bus in Glasgow, the Broon, who foolishly spent the early 1970s battling with a doctoral thesis on the Scottish Labour party (1918 to 1929) rather than jiving on down with the Jackson 5, first needed an advance Treasury briefing on who exactly Jermaine was. He then, since no one had thought it necessary to tell him that Jermaine was a man not a woman, boarded the bus, strode up to JJ’s wife, shook her hand, and told her how very much he enjoyed her work. And to think he’s our next PM.”
He was also a speaker at the annual lunch of the Newspaper Press Fund in Glasgow.
Day 8, April 10: Gordon Brown was at Mossmorran in Fife praising ExxonMobil and Shell’s contribution to the economy.
