'I did not foresee it,” Gordon Brown was heard to say on May 7, 2010. But then the Gordon Brown story is a Shakespearean tragedy of King Lear proportions. Like King Lear, he lashes out in all directions, now berating, now making sycophantic overtures, a desperate figure clinging by his nails to the vestiges of power. Like Lear, he demeans himself, and fails to see the truth, a truth evident to those all around him.
But like King Lear, Brown’s core problem was that he could not 'see better.' He
failed to realise how much more successful the party would have been under a
fresh leader. His lack of self-knowledge prevented him seeing the looming
electoral disaster, and seeing that he was not the equal of his huge ambition.
He was a man whose
political career is ended in Shakespearean tragedy, not because his daughters
turned against him, but because his party and the country did
Brown was right to prevent Blair’s attempts to make Britain part of the European
single currency. But often his reasons had more to do with his seething personal ambition. But naked ambition far outstripping his personal qualities was Brown's besetting
weakness
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Former Prime Mentalist’s £1.37m Income Spin
Embarrassingly, the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath has been found to be Parliament’s top outside earner, in absentia. The Guardian reports, sympathetically:
That line again.
Leaving aside that no evidence is offered up for these charitable donations, the cost of a few staffers and some flights around the world does not cover the other half million. Either it has been paid down to Gordon or Sarah somehow, or it’s all just sitting there in the “Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown” bank accounts, meaning Gordon’s direct income from speaking is not being taxed as direct income.
Source http://order-order.com/
“Gordon Brown earned more than £1.37m from giving speeches around the world. Brown said the income supported an office that he uses to “support my ongoing involvement in public life”, with £600,000 going to charity and none of the money to him personally.”
That line again.
Leaving aside that no evidence is offered up for these charitable donations, the cost of a few staffers and some flights around the world does not cover the other half million. Either it has been paid down to Gordon or Sarah somehow, or it’s all just sitting there in the “Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown” bank accounts, meaning Gordon’s direct income from speaking is not being taxed as direct income.
Source http://order-order.com/
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