The Metric Minister on Mr Blair and Mr Brown from February 2007

By admin • May 9, 2008

Just a bit of fun. This is Mr Miliband talking on Question Time in the last days of the Blair regime:

“I predict that when I come back on this programme in 6 months or a year’s time, people will be saying:

‘Oh wouldn’t it be great to have that Blair back, because we can’t stand that Gordon Brown.’ “

Hmmm.

I can’t find the source for this - but I think it was Guido

[Update: Garbo comments:

This was taken totally out of context by Guido and others. He wasnâ€™t saying this as a prediction that Brown would be a terrible PM; rather that the electorate are fickle and always think the grass is greener. It was supposed to be a defence of Blair. A very poorly chosen way to do it though.

Hence the "Knockabout" tag and "bit of fun" comment", and the posting on a Friday. I'm more than happy to accept that it was out of context at the time. - Matt]

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One Response to “The Metric Minister on Mr Blair and Mr Brown from February 2007”

Garbo
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:07 am | Permalink

This was taken totally out of context by Guido and others. He wasn’t saying this as a prediction that Brown would be a terrible PM; rather that the electorate are fickle and always think the grass is greener. It was supposed to be a defence of Blair. A very poorly chosen way to do it though.

I just bet he has no idea how devastatingly true that statement would turn out to be!