Advice to Gordon: marry Konnie (from award-winning journalist)
As Gordon Brown flies back to blighty speculation continues about his recent less-than-satisfactory poll ratings and how to reverse this, this Indpendent column from Mathew Norman suggests that he “do a Sarkozy” and marry one-time Orange book prize judge Lilly Allen or even Konnie Huq as a way to restore his fortunes. Norman is apparently Press Association columnist of the year. The advice to ditch Sarah must be a joke although it comes about 20 days too late to be an April fools story. I can only conclude that it’s in keeping the with the desire of the Indy’s new editor to jazz the paper up a bit. Clearly this would be a daft move and out of character with the PM’s pronouncements against the cult of celebrity. A rethink on the abolition of the 10p tax band for the lowest paid in our society however might not be such a bad idea though.
April 20, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hmm.. I wonder who Matthew ‘ghost-written’ Norman is getting to write his columns for him these days ? There is a classic letter in one of the papers from a restaurateur who has been ‘wronged’ by one of his ‘reviews’. Since Norman seems to confuse being sarcastic with being a good judge of food, the boss had written to remind me of his rudeness over having ‘problems with his credit card. The ‘Gin ‘n Jaguar septuagenarians’ he referred to were less than impressed. Still, we live and learn…
April 20, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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