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74 Comments James Forsyth 28 April 2010 13:26

It is just getting worse and worse for Brown. The woman he insulted is a widow whose husband died
of cancer and who worked with handicapped children.

Tags: Election 2010, Gordon Brown, Scandal, UK politics

Clegg will be hurt by this too

James Forsyth

28 April 2010 13:13

Brown v The Voters

Fraser Nelson

28 April 2010 14:43

Dick of Doncaster

Dirty Euro says:-”Please can I put a bug on your coast and then report you for everything you say in private.”
How do you know Paddy lives near the sea?
Frank P

Just on a point of order: HTF did this rancid placenta fall into the hands of the meeja? I can’t wait for the post mortem on this monumental cock-up! Technicalities please! And the more the merrier. Best side show of the circus so far. Suddenly it ain’t boring any more. The punter looked like a reincarnation of Bessie Braddock, btw.
EyeSee

Dirty Euro, you are missing the point. Certainly we all say things behind peoples’ backs that we wouldn’t say to them. That isn’t it. The point is though, that Brown has this superior attitude about him and wrongly too. He wanted to know who had put that woman in front of him. What, a voter? Yes of course, Nokia the person who thought Gordon might talk to someone (even a Labour voter). Then he slanders her, not because she said anything even remotely bigoted, but that he felt a minor discomfort about being asked to support his policies. To explain them, because they didn’t seem right. His distaste for the world outside politics (and his own politics at that) is evident and disqualifies him from high office. And yet there he is.
Verity

Jorge Publivic – “Is it any wonder that the old working class are inclined to turn to the extreme right…”.

Not only is there no “extreme right” party in Britain to turn to, there isn’t even a mildly right party, with the exception of UKIP, which is politely centre right.

If you are ignorantly referring to the BNP, they are a strong leftist party … although I think they may be modifying their hard left stance somewhat. But “extreme right” or even “mildly right”, they are not.
Vulture

@Dirty Euro:

I know you are mentally challenged, like your Bunker colleagues Fatarse-on-bore and Dickie van Dork ( where is he, incidentally? having a sad day?) and it takes some time for these things to sink in but Bruin was NOT being bugged.

He was wearing a mic which he knew was there but stupidly forgot was live. He’s stupid. Your’e stupid; the only difference is that he’s Prime Minister (until next week).
Osred

Hard working reasonable lifelong Labour voter is considered a bigot by a Labour PM.

Lets see more of him without carer Sarah and handler Mandy.
John Shields

I love what Brown says as he first gets in the car – almost an announcement of what was to come: “This is a disaster…”

To paraphrase Mick Dundee, “THAT’S not a disaster…”
Dan Grover

Dirty Euro: A bug? He asked for it to be put there so he wouldn’t actually have to talk to the journos individually. You can’t rinse the media for publicity and then decry them for promoting your mistakes.
Ed P

The Tories should have a “laughing policemen” follow Broon around for the next week, going “ho ho ho ho ha ha ha” What an utter disaster he is!
cg

The problem is that it could quite easily rebound in Brown’s favour, especially if the Sun goes to town on it with four page interviews etc. Remember how his popularity went temporarily up when the Sun ran that ‘heartless Brown sends mother a letter with words wrongly spelled’ story?
Andy Carpark

On the previous thread, Fatbloke appears to be peddling the line that Mrs Duffy, far from being an ordinary voter, is almost certainly a retired derivatives trader and one-time Great She-Elephant of casino capitalism.

This commenter has a bright future ahead of him. Remember that no less than a dozen Gulf TV channels offered Comical Ali a job.
oldtimer

Sky have just run through the whole sequence from start to finish. It sounded like a perfectly reasonable exchange – though Brown did say he would reduce the debt (not deficit) by half and she opened by saying she was now ashamed to say she was Labour.

A gastly gaffe by Brown.
Dirty Euro

Paddy So why did Sky broadcast it then Hmmmm!
Please can I put a bug on your coast and then report you for everything you say in private.
Herge Publivitovic

Naw, Ossit, Publivic is Serbian name it mean you know like little son of public and good servant of the people but child of nobody like son of a gun anyway it changing now so no confusion. OK.

Portaloo? How come you don’t have bathroom in home? You poor so you vote for Nick? Is true?
Paddy

You do realise he was let out without his “carer” today.
David Ossitt

Jorge Publivic.

My most sincere apologies, I had thought that Publivic was the Spanish or Portuguese for a Portaloo.
TrevorsDen

Which ever way you cut it , this knifes Brown in about a dozen places at once. It slices up every aspect of him, his policies and his party. And Guido reminds us what Brown said in the first debate – about how he had been listening to people about immigration.

But if anything could be more deadly than the incident its the footage of the pathetic half hearted appology for an appology.

Remember all you Tories – its always darkest before the dawn and yes yes yes, there is a god in heaven after all.
David Ossitt

I’ve reported your comment because extremely abusive and insulting language ihas no place in the coffee shop.

Your comment, otherwise, does not merit a reply.
Steve S

The footage of Mrs Duffy walking off, dejected and demoralised, following the post-insult sky news/bbc interview is enough to stop quite a few votes in going to Labour across the country. This is the game changer, without doubt.
David Ossitt

Jorge Publivic

Hey public shithouse! Kindly spell my name correctly in future.
Paddy

No one is thinking about the poor woman who is so upset to be called a bigot.

All she did was ask him a few harmless questions and how she was going to manage on her pension.

My God – what an excuse for a man. What have we done to deserve him.
Jorge Publivic

David Ossit,

I dare on precisely on the same basis that you dare – that is freedom of speech in response to a challenge.

If one implies that another is ‘ignorant’ it necessarily raises a question of manners – it isn’t just isn’t polite to answer in this way. Similarly, if someone suggests that it is unfair to refer to the BNP as being left wing, it raises the question of allegiance – still more if he she suggests that it is somehow ill-informed and insulting to call Hitler was right wing.

You and Rivety are all over the place. Get a grip and try to express ideas according to the principles of Grice.
Tom Pride

After the first ‘ridiculous’ in the car, there seems to be a sound of something being thrown down or the back of the front seat being hit.
David Ossitt

Jorge Publivic.

“If you think that is ignorant that’s OK but I’m beginning to have doubts about your allegiances – and your manners.”

Who do you think you are, how dare you say that you are beginning to have doubts about the allegiances of another poster, or to question that posters ‘manners’.

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