So what do you reckon about this Gordon Brown stuff then?
Was she being teh racist? Was he justified to make a private off the cuff remark to one of his hangers on? Or is it all a load of bollocks.
Whatever, the guy has shot himself in the foot.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:35, 57 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Is the the unluckiest blundering buffoon going?
The thing is 99% of normal people in the safety of a car or other privacy or whatever will always make snide remarks about idiots they've just spoken to. I do it all the time at work - *puts down the phone* "Cunt".

However, the ramifications of not hanging up properly are too severe so you really need to be 100% sure. What a pap.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:38, Reply)

The problems are three fold:
1) Being rude to a faithful Labour supporter, when the current Labour strategy is to retain as many as possible is detrimental.

2) To all those white working class Labour supporters who are worried about immigration, rightly or wrongly, it now looks like Labour are scared to have reasonable debate on the matter.

3)Although a very human mistake, this undermines how people feel about all politicians, that is that they are "slick" PR driven policticians in public and completely different and uninterested in the proletariat in private.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:42, Reply)

What's annoying though
is that his responses to her in public were reasonable and did address the issue she raised. And the fact that the daily mail is saying "If she's a bigot, then we're all proud to be bigots" is laughable. Yes, her opinion on all the immigrants flooding over here is bigoted. It's also wrong.

But sadly Brown has now destroyed any chance he had of salvaging something from this election.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:46, Reply)

True; Alan Johnson tried to argue this morning
that all of Gordon's media advisors were saying move on, leave it alone and that he and he alone said he would go back to apologise. Somehow I don't believe it.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:48, Reply)

That was clearly bollocks
There really is no way to make this better. But the way the media aren't actually playing her comments back is quite annoying as she was heckling him and then coming out with typical old persons "Coming over here, stealing our benefits" comments.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Old person lolracism

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Totally
wouldn't be such a good story though. Who needs facts!?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:06, Reply)

It's a tragic blow to an otherwise faultless Labour campaign
[!]
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:38, Reply)

^ Sarcasm? ^

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:46, Reply)

Feel the sark mark!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:47, Reply)

No, it's a square vagina.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:47, Reply)

Best of all the vaginas if you're a robot

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Or djtrialprice

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:52, Reply)

Do you like to put your round peg
Into a square hole?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:49, Reply)

My opinions
1. If David Cameron had said it Sky wouldn't have put it on the news
2. I would have more respect if Gordon Brown had said "I believe she was being bigoted" I'd rather a politician that sticks to his guns than one that apologises every time he upset someone.
3. Only the people in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath vote for Gordon Brown. If she is going to change her vote because of the words of one man who isn't even her labour candidate then she is a fool. Same goes for anyone else who changes their vote because of this. I am not voting labour because I prefer the policies of another party, not because of some non news story about one person say what he felt at the time.
( Peej, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:49, Reply)

He can't say she was bigoted as it would alienate
a vast proportaion of white 'working class'* Labour voters.

*not sure what the correct term is these days...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:51, Reply)

It's "Bigots"

(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:52, Reply)

ha ha aha
You are Gordon Brown AICMFP
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:54, Reply)

I would have had more respect
if he had backhanded her in the face then hit her legs with a steel truncheon then claimed she was holding some orange juice.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Only after a good 10 second wait though

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Should have got Prescott on the job.
He'd have decked her.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:58, Reply)

*bokes at the thought of 'Prescott on the job'*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:21, Reply)

1. She was a bigot
2. Brown is an unprofessional cock-end
3. Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Face rapes with footlong

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:54, Reply)

4. Nick Clegg would have had her knickers off and given her a shuddering orgasm.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:55, Reply)

No one said she had Parkinsons

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:56, Reply)

'I'll tackle your immigration darling'

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:56, Reply)

"I'm planning to immigrate...
INTO YOUR VAGINA"
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:57, Reply)

You don't need the Polish
I'll plumb your depths
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:58, Reply)

'Say you agree with Nick, bitch'

'SAY IT!' Unnnghgghhhh
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:03, Reply)

You should write columns for teh newspapers.
This is the most incisive comment I've heard so far.
You shirter you.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:56, Reply)

5. David Cameron fellates Rupert Murdoch

( Peej, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:08, Reply)

This here
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/28/bbc-trust-frankie-boyle

Is it disgusting and anti-semetic to use the phrase "a very angry Jew" when describing Israel?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:11, Reply)

That is anti cake, the internet must complain

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:12, Reply)

Of course not

( Peej, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:14, Reply)

Isn't Israel Jewish?
And if so then where's the anti-semetism?
( girlinthehole, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:14, Reply)

No.
Fucking whinging yids.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:15, Reply)

But they were persecurted and put in camps and everything.
BY NAZIS!

Won't someone think of the gefilte fisch?
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:18, Reply)

Oh, they'll be fine.
They're God's chosen people, remember?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:20, Reply)

That's why he plotted such a smooth ride through history for them

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:22, Reply)

He's cool like that.
Looks after his own, you know?

EDIT when you think about it, the whole 'God's chosen people' concept is entirely one of inherent racial superiority, isn't it? Remind you of anyone else?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:24, Reply)

That's why I love him

well that and all the ethereal bummings
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:25, Reply)

The delicious gas flavoured irony

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:28, Reply)

I can't think of anything to add that Naked Ape hasn't very neatly summed up already
Except for the following;

- A politician who doesn't think to check whether his mic is still on is a colossal fuckwit by anyone's standards, and obviously never watched Yes, Prime Minister, which quite frankly tells you everything you need to know about governing the country

- This woman, whatever her name is, actually asked Brown "Where are all these Eastern Europeans flocking from?" so she clearly is a bigot, and a moron, but if all the bigoted morons who would normally vote Labour cease to do so now then Brown is proper fucked
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:29, Reply)

I would have replied
"Eastern Europe, you fucking twat"

or something like that.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:59, Reply)

"They're flocking from Eastern Europe, and it's a flocking big place."

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Are all old people bigots?
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/word-'bigot'-loses-all-meaning-201004292689/

oops left the link out
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:40, Reply)

Yes
You get it when you get your bus pass.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:41, Reply)

haha
standard government issue
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:44, Reply)

is that along with the Daily Fail subscription?

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:57, Reply)

That's an optional extra
if your not aware of your own bigotry they let you read the Times or the Telegraph.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:59, Reply)

If you like breasts can you get a subscription to The Daily Sport?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Telegraph please.
Edit: It's bigger and makes better hats and swords.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:01, Reply)

if you're just slightly slow
you get The Guardian
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Any newspaper is acceptable
provided you only believe stories and pictures about tits. If you start believing the political stuff, you're fucked.

I take the telegraph to read the obituaries. One day, I hope somebody will read mine there.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Sooner than you think

sooner than you think
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:10, Reply)

Give me a chance.
I've not written it yet.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:15, Reply)