Trust Me - I'm Gordon Brown
I had to turn off Gordon Brown’s ranting speech to the Labour Spring Conference yesterday, it was making me and my wife feel ill.
And the gestures? “A mix between Adolph H. and Edith Piaf”, said my wife and quite unnatural to the observer. One could almost imagine him reading his speech from the autocue, with a line break and “Gesture Now Gordon”, printed in large red letters. As a political speech writer, I have to smile!
We are, it seems, all better off under Labour. In fact we’ve never had it so good. Families, pensioners, business, education, and even the ungrateful, such as me are benefiting. He may have added sixty new taxes since he became Chancellor and increased the average family tax bill by £5,000 but it’s built a dynamic economy or so he says, standing at the edge of an abyss of personal debt, government overspend and a financial crisis looming in just about any direction you care to look.
I really don’t believe that people object to paying e…