Poor Gordon Brown!
Well, you really can't escape politics at the moment can you! I've been trying to and have even avoided the TV today.
Yet despite my urge to avoid the political mayhem that is playing out around us right now, from the reports I have watched, read or heard, I'm finding myself feeling really sorry for Gordon Brown.
I normally try very hard to not have any form of political opinion, I do my best to avoid voting (shame on me)! I've yet to find a political party that puts the people of the country before the lining of their own pockets!
Yet as the credit crunch started to bite at the man and woman in the street, somewhat surprisingly I thought, Gordon Brown took the insightful initiative to tackle the expenses problem head on, some time before the uproar started.
And who were the ones resisting and complaining about his proposed reforms?
Ok it's not a scientific or statistical review of the situation but, there we were looking at a list as long as your arm of financial claims having been made against the public purse. Shock horror it looked to me like the Conservative party members tally outweighed the Labour party claims by thousands! They were very much more extravagant claims from what I saw!
Oh my goodness Gordon what have you done!
I think he opened the school gates to let everyone run amok in the playground. After all there were plenty of the little tykes, on all sides, desperate to divert public attention away from their individual and collective responsibility and accountability, for what had been accepted practice for years.
And let's face it, why the heck would they want him to change what had been a comfortably profitable practice ... since the year dot! No previous PM had dared try this one.
Those with the most to pay back and those who might miss out in the future appeared to be the noisiest kids in the playground.
It seemed to me that they were determined to deflect public scrutiny from themselves by whatever means they could think up. When repayment cheque waving and the slapping of extravagant legs didn't reduce public outrage, who better to blame than the chap who started all this off.
After all 'how could he' be the best PM or leader if he was going to stop MP's from flipping their second homes a few times, having their trees trimmed, country manor gardens tended and ducks housed, in favour of preserving public funds to keep the man and woman in the street in jobs, in their only home or at least with food on their tables!
I guess it's understandable then that some felt the need to throw their designer handbags and other female 'window dressing' items at him.
I guess it's understandable that those who hadn't had the chance to flip and claim anything and everything yet would want to get in (and him out) quickly whilst the going looked good.
I know I feel sorry for Gordon Brown - as if he hasn't got enough to contend with, without having to deal with these little tyke deflection tantrums.
I have to admire his tenacity to stand by his committment to continue his term in office, make reform and serve the public - and I really do wish him every success as it's in all our interests that he does succeed, isn't it?
I still hate the childish self preservation antics that pervade the political playground.
I'm highly unlikely to change my ways by voting for any of them any time soon...
... unless!
Do you feel sorry for Gordon Brown?
