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Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: Snokio on April 28, 2010, 06:30:25 PM
The moment he was told he was recorded....
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8649200.stm
 
:roflmao:
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: Blunt on April 29, 2010, 11:30:32 AM
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: delanvital on April 29, 2010, 02:05:23 PM
Just watched the clip on BBC. What amazingly poor timing for such a mistake!
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: Penfold on April 29, 2010, 02:16:48 PM
The bloke's a walking PR disaster. Yes, I appreciate it may be vaguely be refreshing  to have someone so 'unpolished' on the camera but he really is a complete plank.
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: delanvital on April 29, 2010, 02:42:29 PM
Quote from: Penfold;309156The bloke's a walking PR disaster. Yes, I appreciate it may be vaguely be refreshing  to have someone so 'unpolished' on the camera but he really is a complete plank.

I would think that making sure you are not wearing a mic when moaning about your constituency would be the first to spring to mind...
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: smilodon on April 29, 2010, 03:12:38 PM
He's actually gone up in my estimations from zero to utterly dreadful. That woman was a complete racist cow and deserved a punch in the gob. Still a glorious PR disaster. Penfold you should give him a business card or something :)
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: Lameduck on April 29, 2010, 03:20:08 PM
Quote from: Penfold;309156The bloke's a walking PR disaster. Yes, I appreciate it may be vaguely be refreshing  to have someone so 'unpolished' on the camera but he really is a complete plank.

Bloody good Chancellor though. Further evidence of the Peter Principle. :D
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: Snokio on April 29, 2010, 06:16:45 PM
Quote from: smilodon;309160He's actually gone up in my estimations from zero to utterly dreadful. That woman was a complete racist cow and deserved a punch in the gob. Still a glorious PR disaster. Penfold you should give him a business card or something :)

What did she say that makes her racist? (I may of missed? :g:)
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: T-Bag on April 29, 2010, 06:43:55 PM
He went up in my opinions for saying it, down in them for apologising. She was moaning about Eastern Europeans, these are people who come in, work (they legally have to be paid at least minimum wage, which is supposed to be enough for a typical British person to live on), they live here have the same expenditure and pay taxes. I don't have a problem with that.
If she was moaning about the messed up benefits system making it more worthwhile for people not to work and using foreigners as an excuse, or a specific problem that is only due to Eastern Europeans that isn't Xenophobic that's a different matter.

As a chancellor he was bad. We were rated one of the worst prepared countries in Europe financially going into this recession, pretty bad money handling. And now we're in more debt in peace time than we've ever been...also not very good.

(As for what she said, nobody has quoted it fully as far as I can tell -apparently that's not news- but she complained about the number of Eastern European immigrants etc, which if you read the Daily Mail is a serious problem and needs to be stopped, but if you know maths then you can see it's fine and the real problem is the benefits system)
Title: Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment
Post by: sulky_uk on April 29, 2010, 07:43:34 PM
Quote from: Penfold;309156The bloke's a walking PR disaster. Yes, I appreciate it may be vaguely be refreshing  to have someone so 'unpolished' on the camera but he really is a complete plank.

you wasted too many words on him there pen

he's a complete tool :doh:

nuff said