Gordon Brown and the Jinxed Career

Gordon Brown is jinxed. At the Number 10 reception to mark the second anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Talent and Enterprise Taskforce, Perri Luc Kiely, the frizzy haired 13 year old dancer with Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity, took a tumble, hurt himself, burst into tears and is now taking top billing in the press coverage.

There seems to be no way Brown can escape his political doom if there is to be more coverage of a stunt going wrong than of the actual meaning of the stunt. Brown is reduced by the Press Association release to stating that Kiely is “a wonderful guy” whilst Diversity’s choreographer Ashley Banjo is quoted as saying: “Our lives completely changed because people backed us and believed in us.”

I’m sure Gordon’s been wishing he could say as much for years now…