Sharpe’s Opinion

Raedwald: Brown who?

Angela Merkel gets a mention. Sarkozy gets several. Taro Aso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are both name-checked. Hu Jintao gets a photo caption. But Brown? Nowhere. The head of government of the world’s fifth largest economy is a nonentity. He must have hated sitting there and being ignored by the people who are working out how to react to this global crisis. But as long as he kept his ears open and has understood his instructions correctly, I suppose he was as good as anyone to send to the meeting.

When do we actually get to vote on this man who ‘runs’ our ‘democracy’?