New evidence has surfaced that Gordon Brown is feeling the strains of office, with claims that the Prime Minister recently slung a laser printer to the floor in a fit of pique.
A report on the financial wire service Bloomberg News claimed that aides saw Mr Brown send the machine crashing.
The report failed to provide further details of the incident on the grounds that to do so would imperil the anonymity of the source.
In a profile of the Prime Minister likely to have been widely read by bankers and other subscribers to the news service around the world, the report said: ‘The strain shows, say current and former Brown aides.
'Among other things, it has inflamed a temper that has always been the subject of gallows humor among those who work with him.’
The claim that Mr Brown trashed a printer in anger is just the latest in a series of claims about his short fuse by No 10 insiders and bemused civil servants who have to work with him.
Previous reports have included accounts that the Prime Minister hurled pens, a stapler and even mobile phones at his aides in frustration.
Bloomberg’s account says: ‘Another aide was warned to watch out for "flying Nokias" when he joined Brown’s team.
‘One staffer says a colleague developed a technique called a 'news sandwich” – first telling the prime minister about a recent piece of good coverage before delivering bad news, and then moving quickly to tell him about something good coming soon.’
Downing Street moved to rubbish the story, but the Prime Minister’s official spokesman did not deny the specific details.
‘I think it's the sort of unsubstantiated, unsourced nonsense that you read in Sunday newspapers, not on supposedly respectable financial wire services,’ the spokesman said.
But asked whether or not the report is true, he repeated the same form of words and added: ‘This is not an account that I recognise.’
Tough on office equipment, tough on the causes of office equipment.
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shame there was no one around to throw a photocopier at the pant pissing one eyed cunt.
Oh if only....splat an a glass eye flys across the room.
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