In which Prime Minister Gordon Brown shows how much more fun it is to govern in a land where the opposition is allowed to laugh at a slip of the tongue. Well, fun for the onlookers, anyway ...
Poor Gordon Brown. He reminds me so much of Paul Martin. Team player, waited in the wings for years and years to become PM, and now that he's there, he can't seem to win for losing...
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Poor Gordon Brown. He reminds me so much of Paul Martin. Team player, waited in the wings for years and years to become PM, and now that he's there, he can't seem to win for losing...
PS: In Hansard, the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings, such outburst of laughter and/or heckling were traditionally rendered as:
SOME HONOURABLE MEMBERS: Hoot, hoot!
So that's where the name of the "Hooters" restaurant chain comes from?
"Team player, waited in the wings for years and years to become PM, and now that he's there, he can't seem to win for losing..."
Maybe he can form some kind of club with Joe Clark. Or, y'know, support group.
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