Added: Saturday, 12 May, 2007, 16:49 GMT 17:49 UK, Michael Ridgwell
You know, a few years ago a female friend of mine, a sports journalist in fact, was at a function and chatting to some group or other of women and said in passing while looking over at Gordon Brown: "Christ! you wouldn't want to have sex with that, would you?" Sarah replied: "Actually, that's my husband".
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Gordon Brown Anecdotes: No 94
A reader contacts me to tell me about an entry from the BBC HAVE YOUR SAY website, where thet are asking if people think Gordon Brown is the right man to become PM....
She didn't EXACTLY answer the question, now, did she?
ReplyDelete"So, let me repeat the question..."
ReplyDeleteA truly trousers-filling prospect.
Must admit that the comments have been very telling. I like this one and I wonder just how significant it might prove when Brown tries to woo middle England.
ReplyDelete"Sadly there is no viable alternative. He's been a far worse chancellor than even cynical old me expected, stealth taxing, making everything incredibly complicated, bamboozling us with reams of figures, robbing people of their hard-earned pensions etc. Prudence? I don't think so! My 19 year old daughter summed it up for me after watching the last budget, she said "That man's policies have shafted my entire generation" except she used a ruder word... She's right. He's not fit for the job."
"I am happy now that Gordon calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England."
ReplyDeleteWith posthumous apologies to Alice, Lady Hillingdon (1857-1940).
And she's happy to admit that?
ReplyDeleteShe's hardly good looking herself. Personally, I wouldn't ride her into battle.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I dislike Gordon Brown's policies, I'm getting mighty sick of these constant personal attacks. Aren't we above this?
ReplyDeleteThese type of posts and comments just prove Oliver Kamm right
ReplyDeleteThough I do think he's lost weight in the past few months.
ReplyDeleteDavid, lighten up. I thought it was funny! It's not an attack on him!
ReplyDeleteNot many women would have wanted sex with Churchill either. Or many men with Maggie (apart from sexually repressed Tories of course).
ReplyDeleteEzra:
ReplyDeleteAlan Clarke wanted sex with Maggie. And he certainly was not sexually repressed, was he?
It was more the post above my own that bothered me...
ReplyDeleteI would agree with David Anthony.
ReplyDeleteI am sure Brown is very charismatic if you ever got to know him; maybe not. But, either way, vulgar comment on his, or his wife's, attractiveness, is a bit cheap.
In this day and age, Brown's looks are a matter of importance when it comes to his electability big andy.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember reading in one of your books Iain, that Matthew Parris did a survey of lobby correspondents on the attractiveness of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Brown beat Blair hands down, with Parris claiming that Blair is the type of chap men think women find attractive, wheras Brown is the type of chap Women do actually find attractive. This was in the days before David Cameron, and all of the women I know find him attractive.
Let's not forget though, that Brown does look like good looking Shrek in Shrek 2. Any women care to comment?
Big Andy, please feel free to acquire a sense of humour.
ReplyDeleteIt's my opportunity to be lighthearted, David's privilege to take exception to it, and my freedom not to care. Have a good weekend!
'Marat' makes interesting points. Not sure Matthew Parris is the best judge of what women go for but it's undoubtedly true that women don't necessarily go for best looks but opt for men with an "edge".
Mind you, a pub chat-up line of "I've robbed your pension fund, fancy a shag" is one I would *love* to see tried with a straight face.
I think the only place for gordos fingers are up his nose and the only place for his bodily fluids is on his tie.
ReplyDeleteMitch, I finish work in 15 mins time and you have given me a *truly horrible* mental image to take down to the pub.
ReplyDeleteIf I have nightmares then I hold you responsible.
Marvellous stuff from Tom Bower on Brown in The Telegraph this morning.
ReplyDeleteLots of anecdotes about his rudeness, arrogance, selfishness, etc. he also managed to say the Bogeyman is charming with his friends.
Just like saying Adolf was always nice to Eva.
It is essential for our democracy to work effectively that the final decision is always taken by the women through their assessment of the candidates' relative shagability quotient.
ReplyDeleteWhen they lie back and think of England, they know which is the right man to take control.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteGiven Daves coke and Bullingdon past I think the Labour party will be quite happy to trade anecdotes.
May 13, 2007 11:04 AM
you should be more worried about the Blairites briefing against Gordon, the poison between the Brownites and Blairites is going to cause havoc for poor Gordo
"you wouldn't want to have sex with that, would you?"
ReplyDelete"Actually, that's my husband".
Doesn't actually answer the question though, does it?
Politician through and through!