In a followup to their "Where is Gordon?" item yesterday ,The Times today,in a short item by Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent, promises us that G.Brown MP will be back on the domestic political scene six weeks from now. Meanwhile it confirms what we already knew,- that he has spent most of his time at home working on his book which it seems will be some sort of manual on how he saved the world from economic meltdown when the banks came off the rails a couple of years ago and it will one suspects go on to tell the world how it should proceed from here. Blame for the past will lie with "globalisation",wicked bankers ( acting within government guidelines)and the like. Profligate spending and huge borrowing by national Finance Ministers,Prime Ministers and others of that ilk will presumably either be ignored or said to have nothing to do with the economic rocks onto which, amongst others, the good ship UK, if not already beached like an expensive submarine, was heading.
Whatever the merits or otherwise of the book and whether it is a best seller or a substantial donation to the nation's paper recycling plants, since we,- yes,all of us,- are paying him for the job of MP he is meant to be doing in our behalf but from which he is seemingly absent without leave (or has nice Mr, Bercow given him an "off work" chit?), can we assume he will be repaying the Exchequer for the weeks spent not fulfilling this function?
