Politicians are odd, aren't they?

Aspiring_Writer

In fact he has to be the most insincere charmless dishonest PM ever, he makes John Major look positively radiant!

Can't stand him or his cronies!

fc123

Cleaver wrote: »

What an idiot. It would have been far more sensible for him to completely ignore you and not utter a single word, just in case you were a sleeper member of a terrorist cell or a tabloid journalist looking to get a scoop with a disrespectful comment about your stall.

:rotfl:

I was funky early 20 something at the time too.....and he was so approachable. I think he gave up politics after his heart attack and 'self made. I also know he nearly went bust with his publishing company and pulled it back to make zillions.

Another anecdotal, must have been the same campaign ( so maybe a marginal?) and the telly people came around (which was a bigger deal back in the olden days) with someone (who I can't recall....could have been the labour bloke?) Anyways, 80% of the stall holders suddenly disapeared as they were all working on the sly.
I gave an interview too but it was never shown

Aspiring_Writer

And another thing, can you imagine Tony Blair thinking...Good Luck you moron, you wanted it so bad, now lets see what a !!!! up you make of it ho ho ho

I bet he never imagined Brown would nearly destroy our lovely crountry...grr

Cleaver

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

There's a reason why no top politician can have an informal, open and honest chat with anyone these days.

Vince Cable, Alan Johnson, Peter Hain, Ken Clarke, Nick Herbert, Ming Cambell...

Without knowing for certain, I reckon one of this lot would have stopped for a chat given the same situation, even with the preposterous threat of the person they were having a chat with being a terrorist or a Sun reporter (not sure which is worse. Probably the Sun reporter, although I imagine the terrorist would have a higher literacy level).

Graham_Devon

LizEstelle wrote: »

Or a representative from your friendly, neighbourhood Al-Qaeda branch.

Methinks the OP has forgotten both that we are dealing with the Prime Minister and that the times we are living through are none too genteel...

You truly are an absolute loon.

Does Brown know your on his books?

fc123

Our local MP in London (Labour) is great and I know will be pounding the streets daily knocking on doors etc. It's a shame he is labour as he really should get my vote if it's local issues that bother me. He has worked very closely with my dad over the years (who is Con) over local issues.

The tory guy is young and ambitious but decent apparently...my mum stuffs envelopes at the local office.
I am in an odd situation as I am on CT in 2 areas so I am not sure which electoral role I will be on.
If I have a choice, I will vote in London as I believe it's a close call, less so since the boundary change though.

I don't know who for though yet. I empathise with Cleavers OP but always use my vote because it took a lot to get it years ago. Seems bad manners not to.

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

You truly are an absolute loon.

Does Brown know your on his books?

A lot of her posting history is very anti-Tory and very pro-Labour. Which is great as it's nice to see someone with passion for a political party and politics in general, and I mean that genuinely. Wish I had that, as I can't decide who to vote for and, as above, don't really like any of them for one reason or another.

But it's truly shocking to see someone who clearly has a passion for politics who subsequently feels that our Prime Minister can't talk to a member of the public for ten minutes, whilst actually in public with their bodyguards, just in case they are a terrorist or an undercover reporter. Bizarre.

My main point with this thread, which I think most people got, is that once you strip away the political parties, the point scoring, the slanging matches, the policies and the spin you should be left with an elected person who serves their public. And they should serve their public, first and formost, by listening to them. Not necessarily agreeing with them and doing everything they say, but at the very least listening to them. And today Brown showed just how not to do that.

Right, on that sad note, I'm off to bed. I'm going to vote for Jedward.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cleaver wrote: »

Vince Cable, Alan Johnson, Peter Hain, Ken Clarke, Nick Herbert, Ming Cambell...

Without knowing for certain, I reckon one of this lot would have stopped for a chat

Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Alistair Darling, George Osborne, Nick Clegg....

I'm 100% sure none of this lot would have, particularly in an election campaign.

Cleaver, I completely agree that it's a sad state of affairs.

But I've gone through media training for various employers, and watched case study after case study of competent and confident senior executives have rings run around them by professional journalists twisting their words and leading them on with trick questions.

In the media frenzy that surrounds an election, where one false move or slip of the tongue can cost your party the leadership of the country, I understand precisely why they don't risk it....

shaven-monkey

One of his bouncers could have taken the gent aside, leaving mr brown to smile as he walked to his car in front of the cameras.
What kind of conversation could brown have had with the heckler?
"You can't get your kids into the good school? My child died."
"Your local shcool is crap? Perhaps you should join the board of governors and do something about it, have you brought it up at a PTA meeting?"

"the reason you can't get your kids into the state school of your choice is that everyone wants the best and nobody wants to pay for it. It's much more appealing for you to ambush the prime minister in front of cameras than it is to actually get off your !!!! and make your community better"

Maybe I'm getting sick of the whining bloody electorate. Hey, i could go into politics!

Kohoutek

Brown, like many politicians, has never lived in the real world - he moonlighted as an academic, then a TV journalist before joining Parliament 27 years ago.