Does Gordon Brown realise how fake he looks

Take a look at Gordon Brown's pre-recorded video played on American Idol last night. The variety of emotions displayed runs the whole gamut from A to B. Gordon Brown's PR people must have their heads in their hands every time he does that faked sincere smile. The happy bit so "smile on", sad bit so "smile off" is so mechanical, I would have thought that Honda or Sony could produce a more believable robotic smile.

Tony Blair could "do" emotion; he fooled many people for many years with his "honest guy" smile, and boy could he do sadness and grief. Gordon Brown to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen "is no Tony Blair".


Watch the video of Gordon Brown here and enjoy the standard BBC lauding of this most inept of Prime Ministers in the accompanying article.


Or just enjoy this piece of mockery...






For anyone too young to remember Lloyd Bentesen's put-down of Dan Quayle, here it is...