Gordon to conference: come with me if you want to live
The leader of the Labour Party:
Some people have been asking why I haven’t served my children up for spreads in the papers. And my answer is simple. My children aren’t props; they’re people.
So what does that make his wife then? He never paraded her at the party conference like that before now.
The word ‘prop’ has two meanings – ‘a theatrical property’ and ‘one that serves as a means of support or assistance’. Gordon has no talent for the former, obviously. So poorly regarded is he, however, that he needs his wife to be the latter.
‘She gives him warmth,’ apparently (and for crying out loud). A reflected glow. Look at the Prime Minister, we’re supposed to think, he can’t be the emotionally infantile and brooding, micro-managing liar, warmongerer and sociopath of popular perception because he’s got quite a personable wife.
Is he Arnold Schwarzenegger to her young John Connor or something? Being taught simple tics, the better to blend in as a human? Gordon knows now why you cry… but it is something he could never do.
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 at 11:14pm under Brown, Eye Catching Initiatives
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So what does that make his wife then? A Real Doll? A stand-in for Brown’s mum? The warm-up act for Gordo the Magnificent, but without the spandex? Was Harman – whose deputy leadership pitch was based on her ability to ‘balance’ Brown (not least because of her gender), somehow indisposed when it came to vouching for him? Couldn’t Blears and Prescott do a comedy double act to get the crowd in the mood?