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 3:16 pm
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‘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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