Britain deserves better,

The much anticipated and hailed Brown interview with Piers Morgan in my opinion on the surface of it turned out much better than I expected it. It showed a side of the Prime Minster that many did not see before; he was warm, funny, compassionate and approachable. So much so you wonder why they did not do something similar earlier! But below the surface it reeked with desperation and the need to soften a man who by nature and circumstance is a loner, single minded and always did what he wanted without too much regards to what others thought.

Was speaking about Jennifer’s death – his first born premature baby who only lived for ten days – in poor taste or avoidable, no it was neither, politicians these days are more open about their personal lives and space than ever before. Take for example David Cameron, the Tory leader, we watched him on TV with his 6 years old son Ivan, learned all about the young boy’s illness, we saw the love and watched the difficulty of caring for the child, later when Ivan died we all shared in the family’s grief. So does Brown speaking emotionally about Jennifer’s death an unfair advantage no way it is, this is his story and he has every right to tell it if he chooses to.

As a PR exercise, it was clever, in softening a man who is considered by many to be very hard. But it did not do more than the Sarah Brown’s “my husband my hero” introduction – at the Labour Party Conference last year – did. The public’s suffering is too deep and their concern for their future and the future generations is still at the fore front of their daily endeavours. They will very much sympathise and empathises with the Brown’s on a personal level. But professionally, the facts still remain that, it is Brown who put them and the country here today, it is Brown that wrecked the economy and it is under Labour that this society has been destroyed, confused and many families are left behind, it is this government management under Brown the Chancellor and Brown the Prime Minster for the past 13 years that killed aspiration, increased immigration, child poverty and the number of families below the bread line, they hiked taxation and gave away more rights and sovereignty to Europe and failed to deliver most of what they promised the British public. Did this interview erase any of that?

The fact still remains our country has suffered a serious assault under Labour, and it deserves much, much better than that.