10:14am Saturday 20th March 2010
THIS week, it is reported, our dithering Prime Minister has sent two messages which show the desperate situation this man is in.
Both are significant; the first shows a celebrity-obsessed man, who will do anything to grab the popular vote, sending a message to David Beckham, commiserating that the player will miss the World Cup soccer tournament.
More importantly, however, the other exposes Gordon Brown as a bully.
After senior military figures have been spun against and defamed for criticising the financing of the Ministry of Defence and after a brazen and superficially-assured appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq, Mr Brown admits some of the evidence he gave to Chilcot was wrong and that he was writing to Sir John Chilcot to explain his error.
Mr Brown has built his reputation on attention to figures. This last vestige of his credibility in the public eye has now crumbled. Who else has given erroneous detail to the inquiry? One can only speculate and reflect those thoughts at the ballot box.
Colin T Mortimer, Pity Me, Durham.
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