I am sorry I couldn't bring Barack Obama back to this reception tonight.
Gordon Brown, LGBT reception, 10 Downing Street, Wed 4 March
I am sorry I couldn't bring Barack Obama back to this conference to be here with you today.
Gordon Brown, Scottish Labour Conference, Dundee, Fri 6 March
I wonder how many more times he'll roll that one out over the next few days. It's called reflected glory, I think.
I'm sure all the attendees entirely agree with him!
ReplyDelete"I've been revelling in someone else's glory which started in America"
ReplyDeleteAn LGBT reception? Has Gordon finally come out?
ReplyDeletei think brown did rather well with his congress speech and ian dales lack of posts about it sums that up in m opinion.
ReplyDeletehe didn't make a balls up just grin and bare it ian ;-)
Reflected glory maybe Iain, but it's sickening just the same. Certainly not looking forward to the Sundays if they're going to be pumping us full of this rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteGolden Balls, I dont make a habit out of commenting on speeches I haven't seen. I was working at the time. Sorry to burst your balloon.
ReplyDeleteI think its called desperation!
ReplyDeleteThe speech was nauseating and weird, I thoroughly agreed with Prof. Germaine Greer on QT last night.
ReplyDeleteI think James Cleverly summed it up well in his Tweet: 'Gordon, he really isn't that into you.'
The 'Pool Splash' was incredibly demeaning, pathetic really.
Yes Gordon, American politicians can't not acknowledge you saying how lovely you think America is. They didn't really clap though. I think it was your best bit of 'Muppet Politics' yet.
Barak "Gordon, i am pleased I did not have to listen to your speech in Congress".
ReplyDeleteBarak "Gordon, glad you are on the plane home, read a synopsis of your speech, glad you are on the plane home".
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ReplyDeleteChris Paul, you are now on a yellow card after that comment, which I deleted. You know perfectly well that I won't allow a word like that, even if it does accurately describe Derek Draper. Actually, I thought Jonathan Cook's avatar was a male groin area and that he was depicting Draper as a cock. Either way, he's not far off the truth.
ReplyDeleteIf you persist in telling me how to run my blog and using the word which you just did I will happily ban you.
its about time you read it then and perhaps commented on it too
ReplyDeleteyour choice your blog though
Gordon met Obama? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, American bloggers see the visit as Obama's failure. They don't think he behaved well or stylishly. Each to their own disaster, I guess.
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ReplyDeleteDoes the "special relationship" include using President Obama as a prop or is it just another of Brown's cheap stunts?
ReplyDeleteGoldenballs, did you not find the speech a tad sycophantic. I usually start applauding when people tell me how great I am (usually followed by shouts of encore!). His audience may have been in congress but his target should have been this side of the atlantic. He'd have got a lot more Kudos if he'd have been a bit more blunt about the crisis. And yes, the constant attempts to garner reflected glory is irritating in the extreme. If I was Gordon, I'd be more interested in discovering which cabinet minister is going to knife him in the back. Millipede's got no balls, Harman's too inept, my money's on Alan Johnson, though Darling is a dark horse.
ReplyDeleteAll this time ywe have been demanding GB says sorry, then 2 come along in a coupla days and you complain - is there no satisfying you ?
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wv : state
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ReplyDeleteGordon Brown has no sense of originality, his speeches are repetitive and full of Brownies.
ReplyDeleteSo we are all for gay marriage here now, eh? It's a pretty rum thing that even LGBT oriented religious organizations such as the Metropolitan Community Church cannot hold CP ceremonies in religious buildings.
ReplyDeleteCPs were a good half way house.
It was an OK speech, delivered well, by a poor orator.
ReplyDeleteHe is coming off as dreadfully needy now though. Is it just me or does anyone else see Milhouse when the look at his photo?
Nixon and Van Hauten.
The point is that Obama and Brown are both on the same side of the argument but only one of them is getting his message across. Obama has a 71% approval rating whereas Britain looks set to elect its own Bobby Jindal. In the circumstances it's an sensible strategem.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be kidding, Gordon Brown said sorry? And twice?! What is the world coming to?
ReplyDeleteI think he was probably trying to get people's hopes up that he was going to apoligise for all his crimes against the UK, just to see their faces when he disappointed them.