Gordon is better than either Barack or Hillary, coos Jacqui

Following dispatch flashed up overnight from the Press Association guy in Washington. A reminder from our Home Secretary that we Brits must appreciate our dear leader, don't you know:

Gordon Brown encompasses the best of Hillary Clinton’s experience and Barack Obama’s message of change, the Home Secretary said yesterday.

Jacqui Smith was speaking at the start of her first trip to the US as home secretary. She told reporters at the UK ambassador’s residence at the British Embassy in Washington that the race to the White House was “fascinating” and added: “It’s been an interesting discussion about the nature of political change and what that involves.”

Asked if Britain could learn anything from the US election, Ms Smith said Mr Obama’s “strong emphasis on being the change candidate” had led to an “interesting” discussion about what that actually meant.

Ms Smith said: “I suppose (that) has some resonance for, I think, the very successful way Gordon Brown has in the UK both continued the basic principles of the Labour Government over the last 10 or 11 years, but has also been able to renew that and reinvigorate that through his leadership and his premiership.”

She said she thought “Gordon Brown had successfully managed both to build on the experience that he has as being part of the Labour Government over the last 10 years and to register to the British people that there was a change of emphasis and that there were new challenges that his premiership was going to be able to address”.

She added: “He combines the best of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”

Comments

[prudence eely bond mcguire]

Well she would say that wouldn't she?
She wants to keep her job!
How about a swap? - UK will give US Gordon Brown and we'll take Hillary and perhaps Obama, too!
A month of Brown's dithering and he'll soon be sent back!

[Kirsty]

Is she for real?

[Bemused, Oxford]

25 million lost records, Peter Hain, Northern Rock, secret microphones, impending recessions... If this is the prime minister we're lucky to have, I really hate to think what would make us unlucky!

[Martin]

Now I fell extremely sorry for the people of the US.

[Ashley]

O.B.N for Jacqui Smith.

Why have the public not been alerted to this renewal and reinvigoration the Home Secretary is going on about? I think we are entitled to be told on what day and what time this happened because I must say it has passed me by.

Cross between Obama and Clinton?? I would personally take Dr Cable's allusion to Mr Bean as a starting point coupled with the lugubrious Smiler from the popular BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

[Hal]

I can see what Jacqui Smith means about Hilary.
Just like Hilary, Brown gets upset when he is being bested at the despatch box each week although he has not resorted to crying yet, but I guess it is only a matterof time.
The comparison with Obama is not so obvious unless he has lost 25,000,000 million records and not told anybody.

[Tony G]

Labour may be reinvigorated, but the rest of the UK recognise the continued and dismal underperformance of this government. We've become used to ignoring Labour ministers' pronouncements as either spin or downright lies, but this statement confirms Ms Smith's unique disassociation with reality.

[Sam, Cambridge]

I've never heard anything more preposterous. Both Democratic candidates put most UK politicians to shame. I frankly find it laughable that an incumbent of eleven years can represent change, or that at an administration hit by so many crisis and failures so early in anyway resembles the slickness and resourcefulness of the Clinton campaign. Oh and if the 'Great Leader' can make speeches inspiring enough to attract even a fraction of the 20,000 plus crowds that Barack Obama can pull I might just re-consider leaving this can't-do nation from a can't-do continent for good.

Obama '08

[Peter Buss]

For crying out loud - what utter tosh this Jacqui Smith spouts !! In what way does Brown even faintly resemble Obama - Cameron yes - but Brown defintiely not.

[BRIAN FOWLER]

This is funny. I always think of Gordon as Sloppy Seconds.

[Steve]

Even if Brown was the tallest pygmy in politics - which is doubtful - he still would not be a giant.

[Roy Sulyly]

Gordon Brown, he is exacly himself, but he has had his experience politically and now moving forward to achieve more,

In comparism with either Obama or Hillary, I will see that not to be a fair deal moreso that Great Britain Political System is quite different to that of America,

A lot of things happen during Gordon learning curves which still remains undisclosed either by him or by the Labour party, which if it is under American system, he would have made it a point blank, but not until himself became the Prime Minister, we can see some chages in the Labour Policies and introducing and effecting new belief in the young and old in the Great Britain,

Besides, Gordon Brown is noted for being Worker Allick and have the interest of commom man on the street just like Mr Obama.

[Snarkplunger]

She added: “He combines the best of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”

The mind boggles.
I was not aware that either had any "best".

He combines the greed, ambition and ineffectualness... may be nearer.