Colcam: Brown's Shameless Troops Stunt

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Brown's Shameless Troops Stunt

Cynical, shameless, self-serving Labour.... Brown uses troops for political gain....... no change then, Gordon

It was all supposed to be so different after Blair. The end of spin, a strengthening of parliament, Gordon Brown as 'father of the nation.'

Instead, more of the same. The withdrawl of 1000 troops from Iraq, the announcement made in Iraq rather than in parliament, except really it's only 500, because we knew during the summer the other 500 were coming home....... except, as we found out tonite, on Newsnight, most of the 500... aren't in Iraq anyway... if anyone can follow that.

During the week of the Tory Party Conference, Gordon Brown, the man who distanced himself at every opportunity from the Iraq war suddenly finds it essential to visit Iraq to issue a misleading announcement, in order to keep himself ahead of Cameron in the news.

Tony Blair must be proud of him.

Update for clarification: Soon after Brown's announcement of the homecoming of the thousand, it was established that this was only an extra 500 on top of 500 already announced and that 250 of those have already returned to the UK.

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Labels: Brown, Iraq, Labour