Gordon Brown was this morning the target of a new newspaper spoof on the day he announced his eleventh budget. The likely successor to Tony Blair, who suffered a mauling from civil servant Lord Turnbill on the eve of his final budget (where he was accused of running the treasury with “Stalinist ruthlessness”), will have found little respite when opening today’s papers.
Brown is lampooned in a double page advert in The Independent taken out by enoughsenough.org, the same organisation that ran the ‘Flying is Your Patriotic Duty’ campaign at the beginning of February. This time, spurt-aviation.com pats the chancellor on the back for…
• “Ensuring our international flights are excluded from Britain’s CO2 targets”
• “Protecting the £9 billion aviation fuel subsidy that keeps us all flying”
• “Supporting the largest programme of airport expansion this country has ever seen”
• “Letting the biggest gas-guzzlers of all get away with murder”
Spurt Aviation then proudly launches their ultimate frequent flyer card: THE GORDON, honouring their “hero of the skies.”
The Gordon enables you to a “free energy efficient light bulb and loft insulating thingy with every flight”, “hot air miles for every tonne of CO2 your flight produces” and a “stylish ‘Gordon Gets Me High’ t-shirt” amongst other things.
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