The last Queen's Speech of this Parliament today; pretty irrelevant in terms of any legislative program, but interesting as a pre-election hurrah. Our American friends must think we are very
quaint, but I think it a mistake for the lamentable John Bercow to ditch the
traditional Speakers costume - the whole point is that he is meant to represent an
office, not project his personality.
Anyway, looking at our politicians is revealing. Gordon Brown looks like death, while Cameron is still fresh-faced. But should Cameron make it to Prime Minister we can be pretty sure he, too, will be looking jowly, wrinkled, grey, and stressed out in a few years. The perils of the job...
This is how Brown looked back in '97. The world was his oyster then...
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