Yet another BBC pro-Gordon Brown article

I was interested to read this BBC article yesterday. It "reports" Gordon Brown's final press conference of 2008 where he claimed that a "can-do attitude" will help the British economy get through the current downturn and prepare for future recovery. The whole article is devoted (and I choose that word advisedly) to reporting Gordon Brown's words without any critical analysis or comment from David Cameron or Nick Clegg. Can you imagine a Conservative Prime Minister's words being accorded such reverence?


Here's the end of the BBC "report", can you just hear Gordon Brown boring on and the BBC faithfully lapping up the pearls of wisdom being imparted by the great helmsman:

"He attacked the Conservatives for having "no idea" of how to deal with the problems facing the economy.

And he blamed international factors for the slump in Britain, insisting the country had been "the victim of a global downturn".

He said it was "unfortunate" that the UK had been "unable to avoid being affected" by events elsewhere.

"We face problems, many of which we have no control over," he said.

The PM also hit back at commentators who had written him off earlier this year amid low poll ratings and internal strife in the Labour Party.

"In my view what 2008 has taught us is that the public has less interest in the minutiae, the trivia of everyday events, of the personalities and the conflicts, in Westminster," he said.

"What they really want are governments that can actually get on with the job and do what they intend to do, and that's give real help to families and businesses.""

There is a "narrative" to keep on pushing and the BBC are more than happy to push Gordon Brown's message all the way up to and beyond the next general election; it's Labour and the BBC against the Country and scarily "they" might win.