No one watching Gordon Brown on Piers Morgan?

[MmeLindt]

Surely not?

I watched.

The death of Jennifer really got me at the time, as DD had just been born, and Jennifer is my name. I sobbed when she died.

I do think there is something in this interview being now though, much as I did enjoy watching, and enjoyed seeing GB as more human, if that makes sense.

My Mum worked with his (I think) SIL, a family member by marriage anyway and always had good things to say about him.

what, you mean there's something in the timing? absolutely, it's an election campaign. camo said no.

So where were these floods of tears? I saw no tears. I suspect a crap leak.

There is something just a little bit phwoar about GB, I think.

Oh there isn't! (a bit phwoar)

Yes, I believe there is something in the timing.
I didn't participate in the thread about it on here, too emotive and I'd have accidently said the wrong thing, but yes, I do believe this interview, and talking about Jennifer now has been done for votes.

I have already made up my mind.

I don't need to see him or anyone else, tbh.

This will be the first time I have ever had the right to vote in a general election.

I have already pledged my time to propogate the vote.

This is what it is about.

This is the only voice people like me have. People got in big trouble because they thought it was important for you and me to have that right.

That's all that matters to me. To get people to get up off their arse and honour that.

But saying that, it won't be Tory. They don't care about me, they don't care about my kids. I think they're even bigger liars who just don't care to know who or what we are.

So I won't be voting for them.

And I'll campaign away. I have nothing but time now, to make sure everyone else knows that, too.

The pound I earn is as good as anyone else's, David.

well of course it's been done for votes. he has needed for a long time to make the blair-style connection with the voting public. and it is totally fair enough of him to respond to a question about the short life and the death of his child, just as camo will be talking about his son ivan no doubt.

i don't find it exploitative, tbh, the fact of ivan's life is one of the few redeeming elements of camo for me. do you think that politicians shouldn't be talking about their families at all? (i can see that point). but that stable door being opened, post clinton politics now being all about personality, how do we stop it? and if brown thinks he's a better man for the job, and sacrificing his privacy is a price he's prepared to pay, i kinda think it's the right thing, however galling for him personally.

Well put, Aitch.

Well yes, but the thread earlier this week was very much having a go at anyone who dared say this interview was done for votes, so I said nothing!

It was all 'poor Gordon, he's lost a child, so have I and blub, blub, and he'd never do it for votes, he's just talking about it'

I'm not so insensitive that I'd have pissed on that with my opinion.

As it happens, he had my vote anyway, the least of all the evils, but still, it's a bit X Factorish no?

that thread was premised on the lie that he was crying about it, though, so it's kind of moot. he did the interview for the votes, sure. he did not do any crying for votes, and had he cried i would still say that he was crying because thinking about his dead child upset him.

two different things imo, vastly so. one is being a modern politician, the other is being a despicable excuse for a father.

Said it once, will say it again: he doesn't have to cry to pursuade me to vote for him.

I'm just trying to find out where to devote my time at this time.

i thought you loathed him?

As opposed to David Cameron? Aitch, don't make me become obscene.

I'd probably get rejected if I ever tried to campaign for any of these folks, having been honest about: whom I slept with, post natal depression, divorce, pot smoking, fags/booze/expensive bath foam/etc., living in council estates, wishing my scumbag-drug-dealing-neighbour dead and then it happened, a freak who has seen dead people,, let people pay me to plagiarise because i needed the money, etc. Go to my house, my former school, visit my sister, my friends. C'mon in! Everyone else does.

It's all true, folks! Go ahead and dig it up! I'll give you my numbers. B-O-R-I-N-G.

Cum Laude, 1995, University of TX at Austin and well, I haven't had a former boss I can't say I burned a bridge behind.

Yes, of course the interview was done now to make him more approachable and human to voters. And if you do that kind of a 'The Private Man behind the PM' interview you are going to talk about his children and that includes the death of his child.

I am sure that anyone would agree that the experiences he has had, the troubles and bereavements, have shaped him and made him into the man, and therefore the politician he is today.