Despite the fact that it was a clear cock-up, was it altogether that bad ? After all, his speech was actually quite good, he spoke with passion and feeling, in a way I have
not heard him speak before. I actually felt that a lot of time and effort (probably 13 years of time and effort since Blair became leader) had gone in to it and yes, although the autocue thing might have been a problem, it did say to me that it was the least of his worries.You just know that Blair's team would have been fretting over the autocue, camera positions and press in a way that Gordon Brown's people wouldn't.
So I don't think it was all that bad, and in many ways, I actually see it as a positive sign.
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Brown spoke with a passion, i agree, unseen before. He is also more camera-friendly than i think some may have previously anticipated.
The more i see of him, the more i prefer him to the smarmy and smug posturing of Mr Cameron, whose policy-lite, spin-saturated style is insulting to the intelligence of the British electorate.
It is, however, alarming that he has built a poll-lead already solely on the basis of i'm-a-decent-guy eyes, some posing on bicycles, photo-ops with children & ethnic minorities, and a trip to the arctic.
All i can say is, the French wouldn't fall for it.
I note thought that Brown's former spin doctor Charlie Whelan looks at things like the gaffe as part of a differentiation strategy, as guided by his team of advisers and his wife the Macauley in PR firm Hobsbawm Macauley so it may be a sign of a new type of PR rather than a more authentic delivery.
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