Support melts away for wax British PM

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — Embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown received yet another blow Wednesday as the public voted by a landslide to keep him out of London's Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum.

Brown's office failed to respond to requests for a sitting, so the tourist attraction asked punters whether it was worth them bothering to make a model to put alongside other world leaders.

And 83.8 percent of voters, drawn from museum visitors and online supporters, gave Brown the thumbs down. Some 5,308 people told Madame Tussauds not to bother, while 1,025 people (16.2 percent) said he should be immortalised in wax.

"By a convincing consensus he is duly voted out of Madame Tussauds, becoming the first incumbent prime minister not to be featured in the attraction for over...