Priti 4 Witham

Its only Tuesday and Gordon Brown having started the week assessing the flood damage, meeting flood victims, holding a press conference, attending Parliament and various meetings, has also found the time to launch his book “Everyday Heroes”.  By all accounts, his book is very much about celebrating the work of people who he describes are ‘at the forefront of change but are seldom if ever in the public spotlight’. He also used his launch to call for a day 24/7 to celebrate the work of such heroes up and down the country. But he also went further when he said that  “this is my idea of Britain and Britishness today – not the individual on his or her own living in isolation sufficient unto himself but the individual with a sense of belonging that expands outwards as we grow from family to friends and neighbourhood; a sense of belonging that then ripples outwards again from work, school, church and community and eventually outwards to far beyond our home town and region to define our nation and country as a society.’ What Brown has done today, is to highlight and define the future political battleground. It’s all about the broken society and who can fix it.