POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Political Car Crashes
U.S. President Joe Biden has recently had an automobile collision problem (on top of everything else)
In 2010 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown found himself struggling during the UK general election campaign that year.
After having taken over the leadership of the governing Labour Party from Tony Blair in June 2007, Brown began to struggle in the post the closer the election came.
A week before polling day, on 30 April, the prime minister and leading members of the government gathered in Birmingham for an outdoor poster launch, with Labour Party political strategist Peter Mandelson front and centre at the launch.
As Mandelson was talking, a passing car loudly crashed into a nearby bus shelter, derailing the media event and providing the media with an opportunity to criticise the faltering Labour campaign.
The resulting visuals (and audio) were not great, something which Peter Mandelson had to deal with in the…
