Sarkozy loves Gordon Brown in a non-sexual way

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 9:43 AM Share

The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow flags a very strange excerpt from the Financial Times's account of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's "finest moment" -- his 2008 bank rescue plan:

Tom Fletcher, Mr Brown's private secretary, recalls Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, telling the prime minister at the height of the crisis: "You know, Gordon, I should not like you. You are Scottish, we have nothing in common and you are an economist. But somehow, Gordon, I love you." Mr Sarkozy hastily added: "But not in a sexual way."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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MOHAIR.SAM

1:41 PM ET

October 14, 2009

They're just not that into each other ...

"Can't we just cuddle tonight, Nicholas?"

MED

3:52 AM ET

October 15, 2009

funny

Maybe i am reading to this too much, but look at the flags in the picture. The EU flag is hiding substantially behind the British and French, tsk tsk.

RSPORTER

8:33 AM ET

October 15, 2009

The funniest part is that

The funniest part is that Brown isn't an economist...

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