Gordon Brown's Mawkish Performance

Gordon Brown is reported to have told Murdoch when the Sun changed its pro Labour stance to a pro Tory one - "I will destroy you". I assume that his interview today on the BBC is part of his plan to do just that. In the interview Brown complains about New International's abuse of power, about News International's political agenda and about News International's commercial aims. Brown did not admit that Labour courted News International nor would he answer questions about why if he felt aggrieved with the way News International had treated him he did not call in the police and why he attended parties given by News International after the events he is now complaining of. It appeared to me that he thought the Sun got hold of the medical records of his son by foul means but the Sun deny this and state that they were told of Fraser Brown's cystic fibrosis by a Brown friend. As I know the Sun journalist who wrote the story I have to say I believe his version rather than Brown's as I found Brown's answers to the interview distinctly unsatisfactory and self serving. News International newspapers obviously have their political views but they wouldn't be newspapers if they didn't. Newspapers though do not have power so how can they abuse it? Brown accused those newspapers of manipulating the news against Labour, if only that had been true whilst Major was Prime Minister. As for news manipulation Brown should look at the BBC which has been massaging the news as far back as I can remember in order to present it with a left of centre bias. News International has nothing on the BBC, indeed I would go further and say there is far less bias on Sky. If there was any doubt about Brown's connection to the real world he has now clearly demonstrated he lives in cloud cuckoo land. He obviously has no idea that any commercial enterprise will pursue its best commercial interest - indeed it has a duty to its shareholders to do so. Thank God Brown s no longer in Government.