Prime Minister Gordon Brown, talking live to a group of mothers on the Mumsnet website on Friday, ducked a question 12 times.
What was it?
Are you going to stand down, Prime Minister? Are you supporting Tony Blair as the first President of the European Union, Prime Minster? Why did you need your wife to shoehorn you into two Labour Party conferences in a row, Prime Minister?
No. It was: ‘What’s your favourite biscuit’. 12 times.
And once you’ve absorbed that one, see what you think about the reason why he wouldn’t answer.
He couldn’t decide what to say because he didn’t know what the politically correct answer should be.
Here we are, a once great nation with a Prime Minister so indecisive that he can’t even answer a question like that. This is functional constipation of the highest order.
One wit has suggested that we now know the answer anyway – a Jammie Dodger.
Biscuitgate could run and run. But perhaps Gordon Brown is like me, and simply doesn’t know the name of any biscuits. Apart from a moment with friends last week, when I confess to haven eaten several biscuits (and too many for they were mighty tasty), I can honestly say I’ve not eaten a biscuit in years – so I certainly couldn’t name any. I guess if I were being questioned on Mumsnet, I might have boned up on a few facts in advance, but learning the names of biscuits would surely not have featured on my ‘must-do’ list. Do Prime Ministers not have better things to do with their time than learn the names of biscuits?
It is worth reflecting on how the UK media treat their politicians. Had Gordon Brown mentioned any biscuit names he would surely have been pilloried by the likes of the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph for being preoccupied with obscure nonsense. Biscuitgate says much more of the UK media than ever it does of the UK’s Prime Minister.
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I tend to agree with Nicky Gardner (above).
Nonetheless, keeping in mind the UK media continuous barrage of disinformation, distortion and downright untruths about the SNP, I have a chuckle when the same sort of treatment is meted out to the unionists
There is of course an utter determination to destroy Brown and New Labour in all the media down south and we are now in the realms of a serious and growing deficit in our democracy as the mostly privately owned media is now attempting, very successfully, to determine our political affairs.
We have an odd schizophrenia developing as the same media is trying to save the union by saving Brown and New Labour in Scotland.
This is good news for nationalists of course, though the media manipulators haven’t as yet tumbled to the fact that the result of their activity, if it succeeds at all in saving the Labour vote in Scotland, will be to hugely exacerbate the widening political divide between Scotland and the rest of a very Tory UK.
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I’m a Jammy Dodger man myself although I like the ones with jam and cream filling. When folk ask me a question and I don’t have an answer I find it useful to admit the fact.
Surely Brown would not have lost a lot of face by admitting that he was not up to the mark in biscuits.
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