So where's the Gordon slash?

[imomus]

Judging by appearances is such a non-Presbyterian -- and therefore non-Gordon Brown -- thing to do, but let's say it anyway: Britain's new prime minister was a remarkably handsome guy back in the mid-70s.



He was also, as we saw last year, a rather good student rector at Edinburgh University. Click here for the video featuring these images, and to hear an Edinburgh University official, speaking in 1975, saying "Sometimes student rectors seem to think that once they are rector this is equivalent to being prime minister."

Comments

Re: From Lenin to John Wayne in three easy decades.

[(Anonymous)]

i trust all hippies--real hippies, not posers. i never trust a square. :)
predecessor was worse: even longer hair and shorter tenure as a hippie,
if i recall correctly.

michael

Persil or Daz? Tide or Ariel?

[(Anonymous)]

Expecting hippies to be automatically deserving of trust is a little like expecting Gordie's Labour to be socialist, the Labour party has been conservative-lite for almost two decades and the real maestro of double-speak has just taken the helm.
The concept of any real left/right dichotomy within British politics is as dead as it is within U.S. politics; always amusing however to watch nominal socialists indulge their delusion by cheering on the U.K. Labour party or the U.S. Democrats.
The policy differences betwixt Conservative and Labour and similarly Republican and Democrat are roughly akin to the product differences between Coke and Pepsi.
Thomas S.