The quality is often poor, the number of viewers is usually low, but there can be no doubt that some of Gordon Brown’s best moments are captured on YouTube. We’ve compiled a top ten here, based on the strict criteria that they are funny or cringeworthy, and found on YouTube. They are in no particular order. (We spared you the nose picking incident.) Bagehot has a thoughtful take on what this all means.
1. Brown saves the world
2. “I am sorry about what happened. I take full responsibility…that’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”
3. Calling off the election
4. Spare no expense
5. Brown, Obama and the policeman
6. Gordon’s Alive
7. Mobile interruption
8. The prime minister “got lost” at state banquet
9. The real star of American Idol
10. A lonely moment signing the Lisbon Treaty
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