Mind Blowing Substances for Gordon Brown?
It just won’t go away and to be fair I raised the issue of Gordons’ medical and mental state on Twitter some months ago. Is Gordon Brown popping 'uppers' and 'downers'? Just how ill is he? The questions won’t go away and the Prime Ministers’ legendary rants and temper tantrums are well documented, a possible pointer to his current mental state.
Even the placid Andrew Marr raised the topic not once but twice on his Sunday morning TV show. A point later picked up by Adam Boulton on SkyTV. Both curtain raisers for the seaside Labour Party conference.
The indicators that Gordon is on a knife-edge can be gauged by his out of control severe nail biting ritual. It was a photographic close up of his fingers during the delivery of a budget speech a few years back that first put me onto this and a chance remark by a medical friend. The reality is that Gordon takes mega bites out of his nails during times of stress so much so that he has been caught having a nibble, live on TV.
The extended un-ending coverage on the terrestrial TV red button service has caught many a politician napping! The G20 in London was particularly fruitful, if you can call it that. It all hinges now on Gordon Browns’ Tuesday speech to the party faithful all down at the seaside.
It’s sods law that whilst they are cooped up inside the conference hall, we outside the hall are enjoying a period of high atmospheric pressure and balmy sunshine. Many will be tempted to skip the usually self centred monologues and union polemics and head for the beach, armed with a bottle of wine, passing a number of empty exhibition stand spaces along the way. Not so easy to play hookey, if you are on the top table.
Ministers doing the rounds of TV and Radio Studios have had difficulty in disguising they are virtually giving up the ghost, but no longer have any problem discreetly distancing themselves from the current leadership. Even if they can’t bring themselves to mention Gordon by name.
How will it all pan out? How, long is a piece of string? Expect a barnstorming lecturn performance from Gordon on Tuesday, it may well be his last, overlong applause and the campaign to oust him to rachet up a few notches and the long knives being sharpened ready for the carnage ahead.
It really is a case of keeping your friends close and your enemy closer still. Trouble is his so-called ‘friends’ have already deserted him and are far too busy saving their own skins, racking up whatever expenses can be lawfully reclaimed!
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