Does nobody like Gordon or Hilary?

Celia Walden is providing some good news this week, this time about the way Hilary Clinton is being presented at the Washington Madame Tussauds:

"In an endorsement more potent than a pledge of support from Oprah Winfrey, the Washington branch of Madame Tussauds this week unveiled a wax model of Barack Obama mischievously placing him behind the oval desk with the Clintons standing meekly to one side."


This is still better than the way London's Madame Tussauds is traeting poor Gordon Brown:

"It makes the London branch's delay in commissioning a sculpture of Gordon Brown "because there isn't enough demand" look increasingly disingenuous. "If there was a sudden swell of support for Gordon we would arrange for a sculpture before a general election," says spokesman Ben Lovett when I call. "We are all about people-power and we get thousands of emails every week suggesting potential subjects. But few of these are lobbying for Gordon."

The prospect of never being immortalised in the museum might be easier for Brown to swallow were it not for the waxy presence of his predecessor.

In the "world leaders" section in London, Tony Blair stands just behind Angela Merkel. Visitors to the website are shown a picture of George Bush standing next to the "Prime Minister of Great Britain", who still happens to be Tony Blair."



Poor Gordon and Hilary, I wonder why they are so unpopular?