That Gordon Brown Interview
Gordon Brown is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
If he doesn’t reveal the genuine warmth and humanity of his personality that those of us who know him know he has got in spades he is branded “dour”; if he does it’s “cynical manipulation” of the media in the run up to the election.
I suspect some of those who watched the Piers Morgan interview will have reacted with less cynicism than the journalists who dismissed it. They will have welcomed the chance to see the PM as they haven’t before.
I hope there will be more opportunities for the wider public to be introduced to Gordon as those who know him know him to be - warm, funny and engaging.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:38 am
One can’t help feeling though, that to use such a personal devastating experience as he’s had with his son, to purely gain public sympathy and support is just a little… shallow?
Without meaning to sound too biased, it’s worth mentioning that both our PM and the Leader of the Opposition have been through the same thing - yet one chooses to exploit it on live television for political means… Where’s the integrity in that?