Bigotgate

Oh, deary me. Gillian Duffy has got even the most erudite and objective of you bemoaining Gordon Brown's gaff, but let's face it, that's all it was. A gaff. Calling a bigotted old lady a bigot is hardly crime of the century is it? How many of us have been caught gossiping about someone just as they entered the room? How many of us have accidentally sent a bitchy text to the person we were bitching about? Humans gossip and bitch, usually in private spaces and, sometimes, we get caught. Being Prime Minister seems to make these things almost criminal acts.

I'm not a Gordon Brown 'fan', though I'd rather see him stay as PM than have that snivelling toff David Cameron in. However, despite not being a Brown supporter, I can still see reason, can still view him as a human being, a man. A tired, stressed, drained, workaholic, who in a few seconds of self-doubt, proclaimed a debate with a voter "a disaster" despite having actually won her over. He was angry at himself and snapped, in private, about someone he thought he'd never see again. In fact, one could say it's the most human, and least plastic, he's seemed all campaign. And that self-doubt, is what was at the centre of his little bitch about Gillian Duffy being a bigot, which let's face it, she probably is. She is of a generation where many do have a 'them and us' view of 'all these foreigners coming in', etc. It's old-fasioned and it does stink a little of simmering bigotry. "Where are all these Eastern Europeans flocking from?" she asked Gordon. I wish he'd been allowed, as a human being, to say, "Erm, I'd put money on Europe, probably the Eastern part." But we don't want our politicians real do we? We want them plastic.

I can't wait for Duffy to sell her 'story', make a mint and retire to Spain. Whereupon some Spanish pensioner will be heard saying, "Where do all these whinging awld Brits come flocking from?" Rochdale apparently love.


So, all I heard was a shattered man, thinking he'd failed, bitching to an aid. So fucking what? The press would have him publicly hung for it?

I wouldn't be surprised if Sky had set the whole thing up. Sky is Murdoch owned and Murdoch is an out-an-out Tory supporter. Imagine if Brown had said something more serious? Imagine if he'd talked about sensitive Governmental issues? Sky releasing the recording was a disgusting act and, to me, was far worse than a tired, stressed, man calling the the pot black.

All this stunt has done, is shift some Labour voters over to the Lib Dems which, of course, I'm all for, but under these underhanded circumstances it just seems dirty. And, what if it leads to this bumbling oaf getting in?



Brown needs to stop apologising and everyone else, particularly the press, should put their pitch-forks down and concentrate on what matters. POLICY.


An Eastern European living in Newcastle tells how Gillian Duffy made HER feel: http://elmyra.livejournal.com/498792.html?view=1389160#t1389160