The children are not props they are children, according to Dour Gordon. Yet he wasn't too shy to pop the dear old wife on first to soften up the audience at the Labour conference. Someone please pass the sick bag! Plus the video of Barack Obama.
Although this was one of Gordon's best speeches, he didn't give us anything to get excited about and failed to mention the excessive borrowing which is going to follow all his supposed giveaways to end child poverty, restore links between pensions and earnings, free nursery school places for all two year olds...the give away goes on.
His soft soaping of all the OAPs, of which I am one, is nothing more than vote-catching propaganda. We pensioners are well looked after and I appreciate that. We enjoy the winter fuel allowance, free bus passes and free TV licences are an added bonus.
As an ex-serviceman and one who has paid all his dues and demands I do not feel under any obligation at receiving these very welcome bonuses; but I do object to the hangers-on and all illegal incomers at that are bleeding the social services dry.
Next week comes the Tory party. We shall just have to wait and see what giveaways are coming our way then, but I don't think Samantha Cameron will be up on stage first.
We will see sound bites of speech that Brown used copying Barack Obama ("this election has never been about me, its about you").
One final point: What was John Prescott handing out prior to Gordon's speech? The supporters were up and down like a venetian blind even before he spoke. It must have been something new for the NHS giveaway.
Donald Leach