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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3247
| Former Labour minister Frank Field is a sober and sensible individual, unlikely to be given to flights of fancy. His observations on the character of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, therefore, should be taken seriously. Whilst it was almost certainly Brown who was responsible for stopping Field from 'thinking the unthinkable' on welfare reform , what he said of the Prime Minister has been corroborated on all sides this weekend. It is this corroboration that enables us to dismiss any notion that Field is consuming copious cold dishes of revenge. Firstly there is the issue of Gordon Brown's temper. We have had some hints of this of late – the throwing of numerous mobile phones at the wall comes to mind. Of this Field says that he was on numerous occasions the victim, describing Brown as being prone to 'tempers of indescribable rage […] he shouts with rage'. In any person holding a position of responsibility this would be a matter, at the very least, for concern. In the man responsible above all others for governing the country it is an alarming and deeply troubling characteristic. Then there is the evident unhappiness of the man. Frank Field had this to say: 'the awful fact is that he is unhappy in himself […] it is that the Prime Minister looks so unhappy in his own body and it conveys the most dismal message to people.' So the nation will begin to have this question: is he sufficiently well to withstand the rigours of office? ... |
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