Foreign Perspectives

One of the most striking things about the Gordon Brown entourage this morning was just how staged it was.

Although he passed numerous people along the way, strangely his entourage of supposedly the normal public were about as diverse a mix of races as you could possibly manage to collect anywhere in the UK. Of course, they weren’t really the normal public at all: the majority of these were labour party supporters bused in especially to make sure that Gordon Brown came across as being attractive to all races represented in the UK today.

Incredibly cynical, wasn’t it?

Yes, the UK is now, as it has been for centuries, a multi-cultural country but do we really need artificially created entourages to try to show one party or another is the one to best represent the UK today? I think not.