Gerri Peev: Brown X Factor bluff?
THERE was a brief moment during today's Downing Street press conference when Gordon Brown came close to repeating Tony Blair's habit of, um, embellishment in a bid to appear as normal as possible.
His predecessor famously was mocked when, trying to play up his North East roots, he claimed to have sat behind the goal at the Gallowgate end of St James's Park, watching Newcastle United's Jackie Milburn. (It turned out that the footballer had retired when TB was just four, and that terraces were only replaced by seats in the 1990s).
Today, Mr Brown spoke about how he would download the X Factor single by winner Alexandra Burke. "I think it is as a great song. I happened to hear some of it on Saturday night," he said.
Really? Wow the PM must have annoyed his hosts as he was meant to be in Delhi on Saturday night. Maybe I should be more generous. It turns out that Mr Brown was NOT attempting to exaggerate but had recorded the show. What he meant was that he heard some of the song FROM Saturay night. Hallelujah for that.
His predecessor famously was mocked when, trying to play up his North East roots, he claimed to have sat behind the goal at the Gallowgate end of St James's Park, watching Newcastle United's Jackie Milburn. (It turned out that the footballer had retired when TB was just four, and that terraces were only replaced by seats in the 1990s).
Today, Mr Brown spoke about how he would download the X Factor single by winner Alexandra Burke. "I think it is as a great song. I happened to hear some of it on Saturday night," he said.
Really? Wow the PM must have annoyed his hosts as he was meant to be in Delhi on Saturday night. Maybe I should be more generous. It turns out that Mr Brown was NOT attempting to exaggerate but had recorded the show. What he meant was that he heard some of the song FROM Saturay night. Hallelujah for that.
Labels: Gerri Peev, Gordon Brown, X Factor
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Personally, I wouldn't believe a word this psycho said
It turned out that Blair had never said anything about seeing Jackie Milburn, and that it was just a reporter from the Newcastle Sunday Sun mishearing an interview on Radio 5 Live. Try reading this.
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