Gordon Brown’s Big Pitch: In Gord We Trust, The Papers’ View
GORDON Brown watch: Anorak’s on-the-hoof look at Gordon’s message to the masses. (Pic: Poldraw)
DAILY MIRROR front page: “SERIOUSLY GOOD GORD – Gordon Brown forged a powerful pact with the people yesterday.”
“Patriotic, passionate, packed with policy…the PM’s triumph.”
Pages 6 and 7: Brian Reade says “We’re in safe hands”.
Kevin Maguire says “Leader passes test”.
Pages 8 and 9: “GB’S GOT TALENT.” Says Gordon: “Every child has potential if they get the chance.” The potential to do what depends on policy and believing in Gordon.
“We must punish criminals and prevent crimes,” say Gordon. How to follow…
THE SUN front page: “NOT HIS FINEST HOUR.”
Brown’s no Winston Churchill. “A poignant 63-minute speech by Brown but just 12 seconds on the EU treaty” – did anyone besides the Sun notice?
Pages 4 and 5: “We fight them on the beaches. READERS WANT EU POLL.”
Pages 6 and 7: “BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT. PM vows: There’s no limit to what our people can do.” Hear that? Start campaigning for that EU Ref now!
Page 8: “If you respect and admire us all Gordon, give us the referendum you promised”
DAILY STAR page 2: “FANCY A DROP OF GORDON’S? Not now Mr Brown’s banning 24hr booze.”
THE INDEPENDENT page 3: “MR BROWN’S BIG PITCH.” A pun on Mr Brown’s big tent.
“The Prime Minister’s speech was full of stirring conviction but gave little away.”
Page 4: “Simon Carr’s sketch: “’This is who I am,’ he said more than once. Personal revelation. Tick the box. Then there were more boxes. Strength. Pride. United Kingdom. Countryside. The NHS, our island story. Tick, tick, tick, tick. Joy through work? Not this year; maybe after the election.”
Page 29: “Steve Richards writes under the headline: “With the utmost skill, Brown has distanced himself from Blair and reinvigorated Labour.”
THE TIMES front page: “Brown sets out stall for Middle England.”
Gordon Brown wants Tory voters to vote for him. He is stood before a blue backdrop. His tie is dark. So too his suit. “Populist initiatives aim for Tory country.”
Pages 6 and 7: “Initiatives, promises, policies, aspirations – and a definite feeling that we’d heard it all somewhere before.”
Page 7: Anne Treneman writes in her sketch: “It wasn’t a ‘me me me’ speech. It was a ‘me me me me me’ speech… This is who I am,’ he boomed as he embarked on an impressive slalom run of 12 sentences that all featured the vertical pronoun.”
Pages 8 and 9: “Sarah Brown speaks at a women’s reception. She says she plans to keep things “as normal as possible” for her family. He is not Tony. She is not Cherie.
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Brown targets Tory heartlands.”
Page 4: “Brown takes on blue rinse to woo more Tories”.
DAILY MAIL pages 6 and 7: “Gordon steals Tories’ clothes.”
And: “He pays tribute to faith, family and, yes, Lady Thatcher”.
Quentin Letts writes his sketch under the headline: “So much hairspray, the ozone layer’s in danger.”
Page 9: “Peter Oborne says:” MORE TORY THAN DAVE WOULD EVER DARE TO BE.”
THE GUARDIAN front page: “I will not let Britain down.”
The paper keeps count of key phrases in Brown’s speech:
British/British – 80
Scotland – 2
I – 115
Tony Blair – 3
John Smeaton – 2
David Cameron – 0
Iraq – 1
Afghanistan – 1
Labour – 8
Conservative – 0
Page 9: Simon Hoggart in his sketch says that listening to Gordon Brown reminded him “of those dusty leaflets on sale in church porches in which children gaze up at Jesus, except that we were gazing up at Gordon.”
DAILY EXPRESS pages 6 and 7: “BROWN’S BORING BID TO TRICK THE VOTERS.”
The paper’s political editor notes that “in Mr Brown’s vision of history, anything that happened before he took over in Number 10 is conveniently wiped out”.
No little success then…
Posted: 25th, September 2007 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 25th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Gordon Brown has to bring Britain back up the ladder, it is slowly descending to the lower rungs in the year 2007. We have less Police and more crime, we have less NHS Dentist and more Private, parents who are already struggling with high interest rates and Morgage increases, 5 -since last October, are now having to shell out to their schools to pay for things like school trips, food tastings at school etc etc… SORT IT OUT GORDON, the scandalous disclosure on Channel 4 dispatches about the 80million given to MP’s for expenses some of which they do not have to enclose receipts for. Old people in Nursing homes, not having the proper care because of lack of staffing, due to funding, 80 million Gordon on MP’s expenses………………….. this government any government have not at any time in the last 10 years worked towards helping the ordinary hard working tax payers of Britain, instead the rich get richer, and the decent tax paying people on wages of £15,000 a year have been stabbed with increased rates and morgage payments, get your act together, start working for the people who matter, not MP’s who rabbit on about utter rubbish and get paid £23,000 a year to do it.and that is just their expenses claims, not their wages of at least £60,000. Who knows more about running a country and what should be done to improve the lives of people, some of which have up to 3 jobs just to pay the bills and live from one pay day to the next, the people who - DO NOT claim benefits, who go out to work, and have little left at the end of each pay day.
Fortunately my husband earns more than £15,000 but realise that there is not enough allowance made for these earners, and little is done to help them as they struggle to bring up their children,and too many mum’s have to go out to work to help in this struggle. Family life is non existent with these families because they are struggling just to pay bills, and atrocious amounts of Council Tax. Changes have to be made soon, to ease the stress of families on low incomes, and get the benefit frauds off the payroll PDQ. In the last 3 years there as been at least 2 cases of benefit fraud from women living in Affluent areas of Poole, one being Lilliput and the other Canford Cliffs, one case was for £58,000 in illegal claims. Stop this outrageous waste of money, start puting money to where it is most deserving, help the families on low incomes, and change the benefit system to stop rich people working the system, and face the reality of life Gordon Brown, the reality is……. there is not enough help given to the people who most deserve it.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
The meek shall inherit Tony’s seat, as was promised over a good dinner, etc…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I can toss a caber. How about Brown getting as involved in Burma like he did in Iraq. It will not happen. The mans a coward and weak.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Can you toss a caber?
September 25th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Frankly Brown is a jowely tosser, who seems to have deceived everybody into thinking he had nothing to do with the government of Tony Blair. Browns a liar and a creep, he signed all the cheques for the Iraq/Afghanistan invasions and I wouldnt trust the smarmy git as far as I could throw him.