Wednesday
On the day that the UK starts to roll out its planned and useless ID card project, in Manchester, there are pictures all over the web of the Prime Minister. The background seems appropriate. I mean, it was obviously not deliberate but how the f**k did Brown grin away in that ghastly way of his and not realise what was in the background? We have to face the rather sad fact, in my view, that the PM has lost it.
I bet the Private Eye picture editor is working hard to come up with a nifty headline and quotes for its next edition.
I for one would welcome a large number of Mancunians named Mickey Mouse and Jacqui Smith signing up for several ID cards each, but it's probably too late to coordinate any large-scale subversion of this rollout.
Posted by David at May 6, 2009 11:04 AM
Blind as a bat - oblivious to Nazi kitsch. And why are teachers allowing pupils to decorate classroom walls with swastikas anyway?
Bonkers.
Posted by We are all nazis now at May 6, 2009 11:09 AM
In a hundred years time, I can see Gordon being used as a kind of bogey-man figure to frighten the children.
"Now Achmed. Eat up your falafel or Mad Gordo will come and get you."
Then in a few hundred more years, revisionist historians will be arguing that Gordon didn't actually eat babies, his one eye didn't glow red when he went into one of his rages, and though he did stab Good Prince Tony on the stairs of number eleven, he didn't actually strike the fatal blow. And anyway, Tony deserved it since he wasn't all that good really.
Posted by Kevin B at May 6, 2009 12:34 PM
And 100 years after that he will be generally believed to be a character from the "lost" works of HP Lovecraft, yes.
Posted by Michael Jennings at May 6, 2009 12:42 PM
I presume that the swasticas are part of a history project about WW2. I personally don't have a problem with them being there in that context. I think it would be pretty ridiculous to study Nazi Germany and try to tiptoe around the fact that this was the symbol that they used and airbrush it out because it is deemed to be offensive. On seeing the picture, my first thought was that the photographer had been deliberately mischievous.
Posted by Chris H at May 6, 2009 06:03 PM
As I've said elsewhere, I'm sure somebody can come up with a really clever play on words, i.e. conflating (Gordon) Brown with Eva Braun, Braunhemd or Braunau-am-Inn.
Posted by Mark Wadsworth at May 6, 2009 08:39 PM
Comming out with this ID card nonsense just a month before the E.U. and County elections.
"Who the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad".
Posted by Paul Marks at May 6, 2009 09:51 PM
I'm not normally given to obscenity, but Brown really is a spectacular cunt.
That is all.
Posted by Classical liberal at May 7, 2009 01:20 AM
