The Metric Minister on Mr Blair and Mr Brown from February 2007
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 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.
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]
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!