Frank Field on Brown's rage

Listen to Frank Field note the PM's "indescribable" rage.

Comments

[David (One of many)]

It has always bugged me that satirists and people of that ilk choose to ignore this side of Brown. We know he's a bully, that he's horrible to work with and for, that he breaks things, has a ghastly temper and somehow manages to combine both an inferiority and superiority complex. And what do we get on Headcases (for example); a slightly cute, bumbling and out of touch Dickensian figure.

[Tony Makara]

Very interesting comments but I think Frank Field has to stay focused on the issues rather than shifting his attack on to Brown's quirky personality. At first Frank Field was scoring big on the 10p tax issue but of late it is starting to look like he is in a personal war with the prime minister. We all know that there has been longstanding bad blood between Mr Field and Mr Brown, so its important that Frank Field doesn't let the personal attacks override the effective and devistating attacks on policy that he had led so far.

[snegchui]

@David 11:52

I don't know, Bremner Bird and Fortune had Grabber doing a mean Macbeth and booting all opposition off the castle walls. The BBC journos calling him "The Dementor" for his ability to suck all the life out of an interview wasn't bad neiver.
I will agree with you that Headcases is a disappointment when compared to Spitting Image, shame I had high hopes for it but the cutting satire is just not there and where is strong it is diatribe without wit.
@Tony
I think Frank is in a personal war with Grabber, but only because Grabber looks like he and the truth are distant strangers and he looks like welshing on the conversation he had with Frank. Frank has to stand up for himself or risk having his personal integrity impugned by those who will say he has been bought off somehow if the full rebates don't materialise. Grabber has once again ended up in a fight he didn't need to start because he lacks social skills and empathy.

[David Belchamber]

Yes, I very much agree with Tony on this. I think that Frank Field must not be the person to wield the knife, that is our job. Let Frank Field continue to "confuse the issue with facts". Doing that could actually bring this benighted government down.

However, as the papers have clearly demonstrated in recent days, Brown's dysfunctional personality has for a decade got in the way of the government of the nation.

There has been a slew of memoirs and autobiographies (Alastair Campbell's Diaries, Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and especially John Prescott).

All tell the same story about Brown's sour, bullying, bad-tempered persona and several note that they were pulling their punches out of deference to Brown.

It is amazing that cabinet ministers like David Milliband can still put their heads up over the parapet and claim that the common picture emerging from all these sources - from the Labour Partry, not us - is not at all correct! Pull the other one.

If CCHQ wants any more ammunition, please read Andrew Marr's "A History of Modern Britain", pages 584 to 588. It is a devastating indictment of Gordon Brown's behaviour when chancellor and proves that this man is totally unfit to hold the highest political office.

Andrew Marr notes: "This author's contribution...is to resist giving a detailed account of the decade-long feud between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It would, apart from anything else, require at least another volume the same size as this one (629 pages!!).

BUT IT CANNOT BE IGNORED BECAUSE IT HAS AFFECTED THE COUNTRY ITSELF".

[JAMES]

I believe Brown is an unfortunate sufferer of unmanaged Asperger's syndrome. His personality traits are just there, down to a tee. Sad for him, but sad for the country too.

[Northernhousewife]

David [one of many]

Headcases has Rory Bremner's fingerprints all over it; you should expect no more.
The 'humourists' are left wing and they kid themselves they are anti-establishment, only now the establishment is Labour and them by association with it.

You will not see good satirical comedy again until the Tories are in power. Rory and his ilk will actually be much more comfortable when they feel they can attack with free reign.
Unfortunately he and his cronies, having failed so miserably to lampoon the biggest political target for years, have lost all credibility.
Frankly noone cares what the neutered Bremner thinks anymore.
You need Hislop if you want to ensure noone is excempt. Private Eye can hold its head high and will no doubt continue in its irreverence, whoever is in power.

The left has failed and lost credibility in so many ways and on so many levels in the past decade.

[IAlbion]

Quite right Northernhousewife,If the Conservatives win the next Election then you will see the nastiness come again .
Spitting image was taken off as soon as Labour got in