Gordon is a very astute politician and has always been willing to listen to new ideas and suggestions, hence his invitation to MPs of other political persausions, to join him in forming a Government of the people.
It was great to see him at the England v Germany match, along with his graceful wife Angela, they looked so much in love.
His father, a poorly paid linoleum worker from Kirkaldy, would have been very proud of him, seeing his working class son serving his country so well, a family tradition carried down from John Brown, queen Victoria's gillie, to the present day.