Gordon Brown now just cold-calling random voters

Forget Hillary Clinton's 3am phone call campaign - the PM has delivered an entirely new slant on things. See, in Hillary's world, the person prodding those number digits early in the morning would be yourself, hoping to get directly through to the ever-helpful Mrs. C.

Gordon Brown has turned the tables, however. There's a very good chance that you - yes, you - could soon be receiving a call from the man himself. Why? Well, either he's completely lost his mind and has taken up dialling random people, or this is some desperate publicity stunt to make the unwashed masses believe that good ol' Gord is genuinely in touch with them.

For the first time in almost two decades, the white working classes are finding it once more acceptable to vote Tory - as betrayed by Labour's ever-more-depressing poll results (23 per cent at last count, roughly about as popular as a faulty lightbulb on an eplileptic ward).

So Gordon has taken to manning the phones, speaking to the public one-to-one and finding out their concerns. Presumably before saying 'oil prices? I can't do anything about that, you dullard. The upcoming fuel crisis is a globo-economic environmental disaster that's been decades in the making and all too tragically ignored. I can make a U-turn on that 10p thing, though, if you like?'

The most interesting part of all this so far is that Gord decided to call some poor chap at 6am. Luckily the guy worked odd hours and was up to answer the phone, but can you imagine the horror of waking up to some unwanted rambling from a deluded 'man of the people'?

George Lamb's Morning Show on 6music does that perfectly well, thank you very much.

Written by C J Davies on 30 May 2008 12:00 AM. Permalink