Tasteless

Much has been said about Gordon Brown's relaunch yesterday citing his own personal tragedies as being a reason to trust his governership of the British economy through turbulent times.

Fergus Shanahan is not impressed though.Writing in the Sun this morning he describes it as being

tasteless for him to parade them as reasons for making him tough enough to ride out his troubles.
“Gordon’s Battle For Survival” has become a daily headline in every paper. We cannot go on like this.
Britain’s problems are greater than the vanity of one man.

and warns that

Nothing can improve until Gordon goes. HE is the problem.
I used to get protests from Labour supporters when I bashed Brown. Now there is silence

Less surprisingly Richard Littlejohn thinks Brown has picked up a tip from America

He has convinced himself that if he reminds us about his rugby injury and his dead daughter, we'll forget about his incompetence, deceit, duplicity, dishonesty, downright lying, bullying, cowardice, volcanic temper tantrums, vanity, sulking, unjustified sense of entitlement, betrayal, bungling and boasting.
We'll be so overcome with emotion, empathy, sympathy and admiration that we will overlook the fact that this is the Man Who Stole Your Old Age, who shamefully sold out our sovereignty to unaccountable foreign politicians and judges, flogged off our gold reserves to the lowest bidder, destroyed the Union and taxed us into penury.