Gordon Brown

The papers are reporting that Gordon Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference has been warmly acclaimed and mention that the Prime Minister “highlighted his role in helping lower income families”. Shouldn’t that be his role in “helping lower families’ income”? Also, I’m not sure that I get his concluding point about the last words of the poor Rwandan kid who was killed. Is that supposed to be in Rwandan, or it is a pop at extraordinary rendition, intended to illustrate the point that people will say anything under torture and are mostly incomprehensible as opposed to providing helpful intelligence?

Likewise, at the start of page 11, he seems to be stooping to a childish Mary Whitehouse Experience “The History Professors” level in his characterisation of Mr Cameron’s position on the difference between the Labour and Tory levels of public investment. Is that really what Mr Cameron said?

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