Letters | 7 July 2007

Sir: What is this ‘Brown bounce?’ There would be no bounce at all if our media had not reverted to their favoured toecap-kissing mode.

Brown-nosing

Sir: What is this ‘Brown bounce?’ There would be no bounce at all if our media had not reverted to their favoured toecap-kissing mode.

When Tony Blair came to office ten years ago he was new and fresh and merited a honeymoon period, though seven years of it was outrageous. Ditto David Cameron 18 months ago, whose media honeymoon just ended in roadkill. But Gordon Brown has been co-premier for the past decade and is co-equally responsible for every shoddy aspect of the worst ten years of living his-tory. It is like saying in 1945: ‘Adolf’s gone at last so let us welcome the marvellous Mister Goering who knows nothing of the recent unpleasantness.’

Come, fellow reptiles, please forsake this stomach-turning idolatry and get back to serious investigative and analytical journalism.