Sarkozy loves Gordon Brown in a non-sexual way

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:43am

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

by mohair.sam on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 1:41pm

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

funny

by med on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 3:52am

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.

The funniest part is that

by RSPorter on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 8:33am

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