Gordon Brown: Banish The Wind Bag

GORDON Brown is the Mail’s new celebrity columnist.

In “Why Sarah and I know this is right”, Prime Minister Gordon Brown “backs the Daily Mail’s Banish the Bags campaign”.

Anorak’s own campaign urges Britons to boycott the Mail, on account of its exploitation of turtles. Millions of you agree with us.

To the column, and Gordon Brown is every inch the columnist, using the word “I” 19 times, and “we” on 17 occasions. The “we” is split between Gordon and his family, and Gordon and the rest of us. But what the difference?

This is Gordon Brown reaching out. This is Gordon Brown the Scot - “We have had solar panels fitted on our home in Scotland to heat water.”

This is Gordon Brown the Daily Mail reader: “Like many Daily Mail readers, I want to do what I can to reduce waste and improve our planet.”

And this is Gordon Brown the Englishman: “I am certain that in Britain we now have a groundswell of opinion that it is right to take decisive steps to protect the planet, to safeguard the beauty of our natural world and ensure our country is indeed a green and pleasant land.”

Cue the strains of Jerusalem and Gordon Brown blowing so much wind-filled bags into green balloons…

Anorak

Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Tabloids Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink