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Gordon Brown: ‘We not only saved the world…’

Here’s Gordon Brown in a Freudian slip – power fantasy mash-up. To the Prime Minister’s right is Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy who, like the good little New Labour automaton he is, kept a straight face. Harriet Harman’s expression was, however, a peach.

Anybody else would have made a joke of it. But Gordon just kept on like a very humourless steamroller.


Posted on December 10th, 2008 at 3:16pm under Brown, New Labour

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  1. redpesto on 10.12.2008 at 18:38 Permalink | Reply

    ‘We not only saved the world…but under this government we can drink a Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster in freedom and prosperity, unlike the warm piss that the Opposition made everyone swallow in the past.

    Or, if you want to Thatcherite about it: ‘We are a Time Lord’.

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