tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097271519551916936.post72561207820026624..comments2023-11-05T08:23:27.258+00:00Comments on Politics, PR & Marketing: A Brown VisionDr Darren G Lillekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00870644282739147878noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097271519551916936.post-76913452740388362792008-03-04T10:27:00.000+00:002008-03-04T10:27:00.000+00:00Yes a leader should rally the troops but he needs ...Yes a leader should rally the troops but he needs to be aware of the external audience and how the media will read such a speech. For Brown everything is great, there are no problems, yet his image is poor, he seems to have lost all popularity and his image is tarnished by a range of crises his government has lurched between (some directly of their doing). To ignore all of this makes him seem even more out of touch. it is not necessarily about announcing policy but accepting blame and promising to do better while also facing those problems they are not responsible for head on. <BR/><BR/>To me he seemed like General Custer, rallying the troops to try and reduce the extent of impending defeat. Just an opinion, but I think he needed to be more responsive to public opinion and face the critics head on.Dr Darren G Lillekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00870644282739147878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097271519551916936.post-55886002332329569002008-03-04T09:08:00.000+00:002008-03-04T09:08:00.000+00:00Surely the point of Brown's speech was to rally th...Surely the point of Brown's speech was to rally the troops.<BR/><BR/>Having spent the weekend at conference and the generally openess of politicians to engage with the movement i believe it worked.<BR/><BR/>After all the discussion of policy happened among keynote speeches and so on, I and others would rather not allow the Tories to have our policies just yet surely.Matt Hursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974900641451010930noreply@blogger.com