A MIZPAH for Gordon Brown

If you want to be loved – be lovable.

If you want to be loved AND you are charmingly good looking
- be an actor or Tony Blair.

But if you want to be loved as a decent and well
meaning human being -
do not be a politician nowadays, Mr Brown.

Grown up with high ideas and the genuine wish to
change peoples lives for the better, re-distribute
wealth and make Britain a stable country he clashes
with the modern ways of doing politics.

Sentiments and heartfelt wishes of a very probably rather
bonafide man.

While waiting in the wings for Tony Blair to deliver
his promise he began to wither away, always longing to
be liked and respected. He wasn’t the best Chancellor
in the world and made old fashioned far reaching
decisions that now eat unpleasantly into UK’s economic future but
at least he tried to do the right thing and be just.

Boy, and try he did. So hard. Still does, even harder
and even more vulnerable. Rarely has a politician
tried harder or sacrified more for so much less than
he has hoped for. Or deserved.

Gordon Brown has none of those so called qualities any
celeb has to be able to offer in this day and age.

His hair is stubborn, his face is puffy and prematurely aged and
has the tragic look of a disappointed heir apparent.

He must have been put on a diet of late to appear leaner
and more youthful yet it does not help much to strike
the seemingly gracious pose that was his predecessor’s
gift.

Compare to Gordon Brown the tainted Tony Blair appears
to look even better now than ever before and even
Labour back benchers say so aloud as soon as swarthy
Gordo is out of the country. I think that never before
has a relatively new British PM been gob-knifed so
swiftly by his own party colleagues.

Gordon Brown seems unlucky the longer he makes even
unluckier decisions only to paddle back as quick as he
likes whenever the slightest opposition raises a
mediocre head.

He chose a bad team of Yes Men almost reminding me on
the old Peter Principle.

But he means so well and is misunderstood,
misinterpreted and misrepresented.

The latter by himself by trying far too hard to live
up to the anything but intellectual and consciencious
but brassy Tony Blair.

Too easy to blame all on Blair’s charm or rather the absence
of it in Gordon Brown.

I see something else. Blair loved himself, no matter
what. That self love made him determined and sure of
himself. He never was the brightest lamp in the street
hence the lasting marriage to far more clever Cherie.

Gordon does not love, does not even come as far as to
like himself.

Tragic for one who so aspires to be appreciated by
others. But he should dare to like himself.

What am I writing here?

The apologesis of Gordon Brown or his early political
eulogy?

When will they think about getting rid of him?

Go on. Who cares.

Gordon Brown will make a fine European President or
something of the sort.

He will be cherished one day and admired for his true
qualities.

I feel like sending him a MIZPAH keyring from
http://www.mizpah.tv/shop.

Do not give up Gordon! I like you! Smile!

Think MIZPAH – the best is yet to come!

This article published by MIZPAH Magazine -  ©2010 www.mizpah.tv

© Helena Lind

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