Will the real Mr Brown please stand up?

I have just read an article in the Times quoting Tessa Jowell asking Mr Brown to start being himself. She says that courting popularity is a bad thing.

Up to now we have seen two sides to Mr Brown, but according to people who know him well there is another side we have not yet seen.

Apparently outside of politics there is a joyful, happy, funny (!) Mr Brown, quick witted with a fast riposte. This is the person that the friendly politicians like Ed Balls and Ed Miliband see. The second side to Mr Brown is the politician tactician, always looking for an upswing in the polls and looking for a masterplan to confound the Tories. The third side is the Tony Blair wannabe, trying to create the listening GOAT (Government Of All Talents), the one who is the father of the nation, a paternal figure we can all look up to.

For the first three months of his premiership we saw the Paternal figure looking after the nation in our time of troubles, the second three months saw a return to the calculating politician. The general public have never seen the the funny, joyful side to Mr Brown. Until he can let a glimpse of this side of his personality to slip out, the public will be left with a personality swing between the other two. Unfortunately it appears that the calculating politician is the default mode and the protective father of the nation is an aberration, to be seen in extraneous circumstances.

Until GB can resolve these conflicts in the personality that he projects, I think Tessa Jowell will have to wait and count her majority.

Squiffy.