Anyone recall why #GordonBrown was unpopular as PM? I remember the feeling but the reasons are hazy. #10pTaxRate, #LauraSpence, ‘07 GE, #BigotedWoman don’t seem to add up to enough. Ideas? Or was it just that polls aren’t a Markov chain - he sunk faster because he was already sinking? (#MatthewParris had a column on that years ago, with a word for it, but I can’t find it.)

[1984] World in Action - “For the Benefit of Mr. Parris”, newly elected Tory Matthew Parris thought that unemployment “should be uncomfortable” in order to sharpen the appetites of the jobless for work. He tries to live for a week in Newcastle, on a single-man’s unemployment benefit of £26.80.

https://youtu.be/VDb4G8ZikHM

#OldBritishTelly #WorldInAction #MatthewParris

#MatthewParris comes up with some good stuff (for a tory) occasionally.
But other times he shows his true colours...
https://twitter.com/hughster/status/1464575383098036224?t=_QBRJH6i1yQkfbIYxx31cw&s=19

RT @spectator@twitter.com

'Johnson is accused of having achieved nothing. Not so. He has single-handedly blighted his party and disfigured the politics of a whole great nation. And I told you so: six years ago.'

✍️ Matthew Parris

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/im-out-to-get-boris

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1535290693140324353