Gordon Brown on TV today

[minestrone]

I suspect he is hitting the booze, really hard.

[Clippy]

Someone get Gok Wan on the phone and tell him we have a job for him.

[minestrone]

I kind of feel sorry for Brown, not because he got royaly shafted by his party and the electorate but because he was allowed to get away with being a bully for so long and his personality got warped.

I do not believe for one second they hacked his phone to find out his son's condition, doctors will not leave messages of diagnosis on answering services and I doubt people were phoning him up and leaving messages on the lines of "Hi Gordon it is Tony, can you get those figures to me, sorry to here your son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis"

[EternalOptimist]

I kind of feel sorry for Brown, not because he got royaly shafted by his party and the electorate but because he was allowed to get away with being a bully for so long and his personality got warped.

I do not believe for one second they hacked his phone to find out his son's condition, doctors will not leave messages of diagnosis on answering services and I doubt people were phoning him up and leaving messages on the lines of "Hi Gordon it is Tony, can you get those figures to me, sorry to here your son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis"

They may not have gotten the info from phone hacking, but that doesnt really matter.
what matters is that they published it

thats a bit cr@p really

[minestrone]

They may not have gotten the info from phone hacking, but that doesnt really matter.
what matters is that they published it

thats a bit cr@p really

"In the public interest" is the line that gets used often. Do I think Wayne Rooney pumping a fat slapper is in the "public interest"? no.

Do I think the person running the country's finances has a child with a debilitating disease requiring constant medical attention is of "public interest"? yes.

Brown seems more upset about the details of his son's condition being leaked than his son's condition.

[OwlHoot]

I suspect he is hitting the booze, really hard.

Ironic if so because it's said that when he turned up to parties as an undergraduate, booze was the one thing he didn't have in his carrier bag - It was a brick.

[EternalOptimist]

Brown seems more upset about the details of his son's condition being leaked than his son's condition.

now thats a stretch.

Its possible to have a grievous situation made worse by having it made public knowledge.

attack Brown by all means , fair and foul, but leave his kids out of it