Politics-speak

A fantastic bit off Auntie today, following David Cameron's attempts to push Labour into revealing who knew about these secret party donations:

Chief Whip Mr Hoon later told the BBC's Politics Show: "Anybody who knows Gordon Brown knows that he has been completely shocked by these revelations.

"He has a real reputation around Parliament ... as someone frankly not that interested in matters of money, certainly so far as it affects him personally and as far as it effects the party."

Would somebody then please explain to me what the hell he was doing as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the past ten years?

Filmography

( 64 - Euripides' Medea )

( 65 - Good Bye, Lenin! )

If anyone is curious, the irony of posting about a film concerning the collapse of communism and the acceptance of capitalism just as LJ is sold to a Russian firm is not lost upon me.