Dominic Lawson: Politics should be more like a gentlemen’s club, not less
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Yesterday Gordon Brown once again hammered out his familiar refrain that “the lesson from all this is that Parliament can no longer be like a gentlemen’s club“. You see, in America the term has a rather different meaning than that intended by Mr Brown. If you look up “Gentlemen’s clubs in London” on the American search engine Google, the list is devoted to such establishments as Babylon Girls Escorts, Fantasy Strip, London Asian Escorts and Rififi Gentlemen’s Club.
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On the other hand, there is a strong and deliberate imputation of decadence in Mr Brown’s now familiar description – which he spat out a couple of more times yesterday in his interview on the Today programme. The PM’s constant use of the phrase “Gentlemen’s Club” in connection with the scandal is part of a definite strategy – and Mr Brown says nothing, not even “Hello”, without political purpose. “Gentle …
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