The Anonymous Widower

An Undertaker’s Tea Party

The headline in The Times today compares Prudence’s launch of his campaign to an undertaker’s tea party.

It was a no-frills launch, positively Presbyterian in its austerity. Some said that Gordon Brown and his Cabinet looked just plain grim, like undertakers on a tea break. And it must be said, as they trooped out of the gleaming black door of No 10 at 10.48am, they did look as solemn as a sermon. The only thing sunny was above us, in the sky, on this lovely spring day that was troubled only by a soft breeze.

The launch cost nothing, a price Gordon can afford. The PM spoke through a mike hidden in the lapel of his Sunday best suit. His hair was (suitably) grey and newly cut, as perfect as a bowling lawn. The look of pure concentration on his face as he stood before us, the Cabinet fanned out on each side, looking like the Politburo but not as much fun, was that of a little boy desperately trying to remember his lines.

Certainly, he and his cabinet all look grim in the photo.  But then the threat of redundancy affects people like that.

I do think though this article is rather a slur on undertakers.  I met a quite few lately and I would never call them grim.  Professional and serious, maybe, but then you would expect that.

April 7, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | News | Death, Gordon Brown, NuLabor, Politics