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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-10 07:10 PM
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Labour's election strategy: bring on no-nonsense hard man Gordon Brown
In an audacious new election strategy, Labour is set to embrace Gordon Brown's reputation for anger and physical aggression, presenting the prime minister as a hard man, unafraid of confrontation, who is willing to take on David Cameron in "a bare-knuckle fistfight for the future of Britain", the Guardian has learned.

Following months of allegations about Brown's explosive outbursts and bullying, Downing Street will seize the initiative this week with a national billboard campaign portraying him as "a sort of Dirty Harry figure", in the words of a senior aide. One poster shows a glowering Brown alongside the caption "Step outside, posh boy," while another asks "Do you want some of this?"

Brown aides had worried that his reputation for volatility might torpedo Labour's hopes of re-election, but recent internal polls suggest that, on the contrary, stories of Brown's testosterone-fuelled eruptions have been almost entirely responsible for a recent recovery in the party's popularity. As a result, the aide said, Labour was "going all in", staking the election on the hope that voters will be drawn to an alpha-male personality who "is prepared to pummel, punch or even headbutt the British economy into a new era of jobs and prosperity".

Strategists are even understood to be considering engineering a high-profile incident of violence on the campaign trail, and are in urgent consultations on the matter with John Prescott, whose public image improved in 2001 after he punched an egg-throwing protester.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man

Well it is April 1st. :)
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-10 07:52 PM
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1. K&R
I feel we should try to get this to the Greatest Page. This is the kind of message that all of DU will have a good opinion on ...
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:13 AM
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2. When I read such articles...
first I check the source. Yes, the Guardian's OK.

Then I check the date. Mmmrrrrmmmm......
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 10:31 AM
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3. Well I did mention at the bottom of the post
it's April 1st.

Mind you I did get visions of Brown and Prescott wearing the right suits.

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craigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 07:46 PM
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4. I suppose they have to do something but I'm not sure this will work.
It just might though. I mean cameron doesn't really look all that tough does he?
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