Could this Prime Minister hopeful beat you at Halo?

by Justin McElroy { Jun 29th 2007 at 12:45PM }

No, probably not. But he is, according to an Associated Press report, prone to gaming. The tech nut in question is David Miliband, the new foreign secretary of Britain. Last year, he was the first British Cabinet minister to post a blog, but perhaps most exciting is this line from the report: "A technology buff, he also has an avatar in Second Life."

OK, fine, so it's not exactly a six-digit Gamerscore. But do you really want a world leader complaining about a guildie ninja looting his shoulders when he's supposed to be on a plane to the G8 summit? No, of course you don't. We think this is one case where it's OK for someone to remain a newb.

[Via GamePolitics]

Tags: britain, primeminister, secondlife

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

alexbryan @ Jun 29th 2007 12:50PM

Don't you mean minister or MP? He's not the Prime Minister!

jay @ Jun 29th 2007 12:53PM

Prime Minister hopeful.

lol.

Ezira @ Jun 29th 2007 12:59PM

Lol, Prime minister!

He's an MP. He's the foreign secretary and an MP (Member of Parliament). I used to read his blog when he was secretary of state for environment and I got the feeling he had no clue about what he was talking about.

Gregory Kimball @ Jun 29th 2007 1:03PM

All important politicians should play violent video games. They need to be able to defend themselves, and as Jack Thompson repeatedly says, violent games are the best way to train yourself to kill.

For that matter, if Manhunt 2 is such a good killing simulator then why aren't we training our troops with it? I'll bet that within a month Osama Bin Laden would be found dead with a Wiimote shoved through his chest.

Jacob P. @ Jun 29th 2007 1:09PM

@ 1,2,3

"Nicknamed 'Brains' by Tony Blair's staff, the thoroughly modern Miliband is being groomed to be a candidate for prime minister."

Yeah...looks like he's a Prime Minister hopeful...or that's what I gathered from the story...correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't actually know anything about the Prime Minister, or how one is appointed Prime Minister...

tc @ Jun 29th 2007 1:15PM

gordon "even my face is boring" brown is the new PM

Justin McElroy @ Jun 29th 2007 1:19PM

Hopeful guys. As in "potential" PM. Hopeful.

Ashley Allen @ Jun 29th 2007 1:43PM

Yeah, if Gord loses an election this guy will probibly be the person Labour turn to.

But if Gord loses an election then we've got a tory in charge in which cases we're buggered anyway!

samfish @ Jun 29th 2007 2:13PM

I bet he could beat anyone at Halo DS.

DBuck_Eye @ Jun 29th 2007 2:20PM

@ samfish
Us naysayers never did get "owned" about that, did we? No.

King Bob @ Jun 29th 2007 2:23PM

Miliband was all set to run for the leadership of the Labour Party a few weeks ago. If he had run and won he would now be our PM. He didn't run because he had a few meetings with ol' Gordy boy our new Lord and Master. Since Miliband is still very young for a politician it looks as though Gordon promised Miliband a big job (he's our new foreign secretary) if he didn't run. Thus Gordon won the 'race' unopposed.

Ahem! pay attention at the back there, given that he wanted to run but got bribed out of it, it's likely he'll stand next time, and given that Gordon bought him out, he clearly had a chance of winning and thus is a potential Prime minister. Ta da!

Incidentally the unelected, tax raising, commie we now have as a leader (Gordon Brown - real name James Brown until he came into politics) will guarantee a return of the Tory Party to power hurrah!.

See politically all zapped up and into games, I'm perfect me. :P An education in British Politics on Joystiq, can't get this anywhere else folks...mmm wonder why..zzzzzz