to have a small crush on Gordon Brown?

[InMyLittleHead]

My friends assure me I am in a minority of one, and possibly mad to boot. But I do quite fancy him.

The articles are interesting in a slightly spooky way but I have two issues:

He says: "In closing, I must stress two things. I am NOT in the business of suggesting that there is something 'wrong' with people who have mental and serious physical defects: rather that such people should neither seek nor get the Office of Prime Minister." Why the hell not? If there is nothing "wrong" with those people, why can't they go for whichever job they can get? You don't have to like GB, but no-one questions his intelligence or commitment.

Secondly - the first article implies the use of MAOIs is quite recent: "Thus there is evidence that, having tried and seen no help from the newer generation of drugs, Gordon Brown has now been put onto MAOIs". The jaw clenching tic has been around with GB since time began - certainly was there in 1997. To link it with MAOIs in the second article because it fits his conspiracy theory is piss poor blogging.

< CatintheHat2 - I'm still hanging my head in shame re the whole football/Mr Balls thing. And then he even went and bloody answered it - I am very sheepish. But thanks for being so gracious >

Hassled - I think your point 2 would rely on an observer comparing the extent of the tic in the old days and currently. Ie has it worsened under "MAOI"s?

Your point 1 - have a look at another extraordinary article, this time in The Spectator. I think MMH may have been referring to it above. The answer to your "Why the hell not?" is that there IS something very clearly wrong with GB, not being dealt with by any medication real or imaginary.

Politicians are indeed generally both intelligent and committed people. Those two qualities do not make them entirely adequate to run a nation.

Your point three - I was very impressed that you held up your hand to something I quoted (deliberately)anonymously and a fair bit of time later!

H - (I have just noticed something, I quite coincidentally wrote my note direcetly after you had written something else on that thread, so it looked as if I was after you with a rolling pin. Not the case I assure you)

Well Eden was apparently on speed throughout the Suez Crisis and that turned out fine...