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Much has been said about Gordon Brown’s apparent delight with current events. Not surprisingly perhaps considering that he in the space of a few weeks has gone from being an incredibly dead duck to a financial ubermenschen saving the not only the country, but the world, from economic armageddon.
David Miliband who?
Prime Ministerial relaunches normally consist of a blizzard of proposals about things like “extended opening hours for internet cafés in inner cities” and “more marmite for hard-pressed families over 80.”
This one however, sets a new standard as far as glee, audacity and cost are concerned.
I might be wrong of course.
It might be a perfectly innocent global meltdown resulting in blind panic and a momentary war-like trust in the leader of the day…
Anyway.
The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that Brown’s eyesight is causing concern among his aides, and that correspondence to and from the PM is written in type up to five times larger than normal.
For someone whose main role at the moment is spreading calm, this must be somewhat impractical.
“NO NEED TO PANIC” looks less than reassuring in 36 point type – capitals or not.
Tags: Bank crisis, cartoon, Eyesight, Gordon Brown, Recession, Relaunch, Sunday Telegraph, The Times
