Both Ben Gummer and Ipswich Spy have it wrong, the problem with Gordon Brown’s visit was not the fact that it was publicly funded (well not entirely the problem), but the fact that it blended the political campaigning in a marginal seat (and marginal ward) together with an official visit. So the speed limits being broken and the publicly funded outriders made sense when visiting the airmen but not when going campaigning and going to BBC Suffolk.
It was the blending of the two together, or at least blending them together so blatantly, which was so wrong. But that’s been endemic at least since Chris Mole became an MP.
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