“Gordon Brown did a spectacular U-turn yesterday as only he can. One moment he was going full steam ahead with his plan to tax the poor more and the next he was outraged at the very thought of anyone perpetrating such a wholly despicable act.
At first it reminded me of someone who utters a swear word and then slaps himself for saying it. Except Gordon didn’t slap himself for, of course, he won’t admit to saying it. So instead he accused David Cameron of saying something worse and slapped him.”
Of increasing significance is Gordon Brown’s habit of breaking into an unnatural Cheshire Cat smile at entirely inappropriate moments. This particular (and avoidable in that it is deliberate) facial mannerism makes him appear like, as one of my late, politically incorrect relatives would have said, a “silly-boy”. While it is designed to annoy members of the Opposition, especially the Conservative leader David Cameron, it only serves to make the Prime Minister look more ridiculous.
The unavoidable inference to be drawn from Gordon Brown’s constant grinning during yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions session is that his monumental gaffe in increasing the tax burden upon the low paid is all very much a big joke. That he has created the entirely wrong impression amongst those outside the Westminster Village is completely lost on him. As Captain Mainwaring would have said to Pike, “foolish boy!”