Friday 12 December 2008

Phriday Photo XX

In any walk of life, boasting about your achievements before you have actually completed the task at hand is a recipe for disaster. When you are a high profile politician the risks are amplified many times over. George Bush declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq a few years back springs to mind. I'm not sure his credibility, such as it was, really ever recovered from that moment on...

Mr Gordon Brown gave us all a laugh when he gaffed in the House of Commons this week by opening with "We have not only saved the world..." When he managed to get a word in between the delirious cackling, he explained that what he had meant to say was that "We have saved the banking world..."

Well, I am not sure whether or not the jury has returned on that one SuperG, but history will take a long, hard look at the obvious question: "At what cost?"

The smugger the pride, the harder the fall...

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8 comments:

Daddy Papersurfer said...

I'm sure things will even out despite him .........or in spite of him .... [I am a financial genies arse]

70steen said...

as long as he resists wearing his Y-fronts outside his suit trousers we will be just fine.....

Somnambulist said...

@DP - You are right of course, being a financial, er, thingy. What I will wager though, is that many people will be a bit surprised at who they are even with, once the levelling has been done...

@70s - SuperG or Daddy P ? (does DP own suit trousers?!)

70steen said...

OMG Suoer Gordony of course .. if the underwear starts showing (or smelling) we are doomed ... as for DP it it is a usual weekend event I believe ... so I have been told (the underwear outside the pants.. couldn't comment on the smell though!!) ;-)

misterwoppit said...

Caption:
Gordon Brown's Ben-Wah Love Eggs fire into life.

Somnambulist said...

@70s - I'd rather not think about what DP gets up to at weekends. Oh no, I just did. Eeeek.

@MrW - Ben-Wah love eggs... brilliant :-)))

Anonymous said...

Damn, not being a Brit. I can't really think of anything interesting to say on Mr. Brown. He's so less easy to despise than George Bush.

Andrew Goulding

Somnambulist said...

@laog - You are so right. He is easy to mock (he's a Scottish politician after all), but just not interesting enough to despise.