Gordon Brown and the Class War "Joke"

Gordon Brown:

He told host Andrew Marr: ''If you think the playing fields of Eton was anything other than a joke then I am afraid you take your politics too seriously."

It seems ironic that someone who has spent decades living and breathing politics in order to become PM is accusing someone else of taking politics too seriously. Although I have to say that I would rather the PM erred on the side of caution and took politics extremely fucking seriously himself. If he can find the time inbetween watching The X Factor and calling for glorified photo opportunities international conferences on nothing that is.

Still, this is a nice attempt to rewrite history. Brown's declaration of class war - which is what the "playing fields of Eton" comment absolutely represents - was a fight-back. Yet another fight-back, in all honesty. And it didn't work. So now it is just a joke. Which, if nothing else, shows that Brown is about as good at comedy as he is at being Prime Minister.