Dear All
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to in Rochdale as a "bigoted woman".
This is one of the defining moments of the 2010 General Election.
One of the most controversial subjects at the present moment is immigration, when 65 year-old Gillian Duffy challenged Gordon Brown, she had no idea what was to follow.
Gillian Duffy, a lifelong Labour voter was speaking on a number of concerns which figure high in the minds of ordinary people.
After her exchange Brown got in his car but forgot he was still wearing a broadcast microphone.
It starts off with Gordon Brown saying of the exchange went badly.
And then the private face of Gordon Brown emerges;
"That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous”.
When an aide asked what went wrong, Brown replied;
"Ugh everything! She's just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean it's just ridiculous. I don't know why Sue brought her up towards me."
Afterwards widower Mrs Duffy was played the tape by the press and was visiably shocked;
Mrs Duffy said;
"I'm very upset. He's an educated person. Why has he come out with words like that?”
Mrs Duffy added;
"He's supposed to be leading the country and he's calling an ordinary woman who's come up and asked questions that most people would ask him... It's going to be tax, tax, tax for another 20 years to get out of this national debt, and he's calling me a bigot."
It is precisely because Mrs Duffy is an ordinary woman that Gordon Brown spoke like that, Brown doesn’t like the public.
Today, we caught a rare glimpse of the private face of Gordon Brown who holds ordinary people in contempt.
And that is now in the public domain.
The irony is that Mrs Duffy after the exchange described Gordon Brown as “very nice”.
That opinion change as she listened to the tape of abuse about her being played back.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it was a disaster for the prime minister because it showed the gap between his public face and private face.
Robinson added;
"For those of us who have known Gordon Brown for many years, what we have seen is no huge surprise. He has got better and better at handling himself in public, but quite often he flares up in private, expresses frustration." Nick Robinson added that the irony was that if his comments had not been picked up, it would have been a lively election exchange which would have been seen to do him credit”.
In a hasty arrange damage limitation exercise on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, Brown said;
"Of course I apologise if I've said anything that's been offensive and I would never put myself in a position where I would want to say anything like that about a woman I'd met”.
A spokesman for Gordon Brown said;
"Mr Brown has apologised to Mrs Duffy personally by phone. He does not think that she is bigoted”.
Well all evidence to the contrary.
The Conservatives said Mr Brown's comments spoke for themselves.
They reveal a man who is not to be trusted, saying one thing in public and another in private.
The private side revealed that Gordon Brown’s opinion of anyone who raises concerns on subjects such as immigration, ‘they are a bigot’.
Today; was a defining moment in the 2010 General Election because it reveals the dark ugly side of Gordon Brown!
This might be the day that Gordon Brown lost the female, elderly and working class vote.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to in Rochdale as a "bigoted woman".
This is one of the defining moments of the 2010 General Election.
One of the most controversial subjects at the present moment is immigration, when 65 year-old Gillian Duffy challenged Gordon Brown, she had no idea what was to follow.
Gillian Duffy, a lifelong Labour voter was speaking on a number of concerns which figure high in the minds of ordinary people.
After her exchange Brown got in his car but forgot he was still wearing a broadcast microphone.
It starts off with Gordon Brown saying of the exchange went badly.
And then the private face of Gordon Brown emerges;
"That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous”.
When an aide asked what went wrong, Brown replied;
"Ugh everything! She's just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean it's just ridiculous. I don't know why Sue brought her up towards me."
Afterwards widower Mrs Duffy was played the tape by the press and was visiably shocked;
Mrs Duffy said;
"I'm very upset. He's an educated person. Why has he come out with words like that?”
Mrs Duffy added;
"He's supposed to be leading the country and he's calling an ordinary woman who's come up and asked questions that most people would ask him... It's going to be tax, tax, tax for another 20 years to get out of this national debt, and he's calling me a bigot."
It is precisely because Mrs Duffy is an ordinary woman that Gordon Brown spoke like that, Brown doesn’t like the public.
Today, we caught a rare glimpse of the private face of Gordon Brown who holds ordinary people in contempt.
And that is now in the public domain.
The irony is that Mrs Duffy after the exchange described Gordon Brown as “very nice”.
That opinion change as she listened to the tape of abuse about her being played back.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it was a disaster for the prime minister because it showed the gap between his public face and private face.
Robinson added;
"For those of us who have known Gordon Brown for many years, what we have seen is no huge surprise. He has got better and better at handling himself in public, but quite often he flares up in private, expresses frustration." Nick Robinson added that the irony was that if his comments had not been picked up, it would have been a lively election exchange which would have been seen to do him credit”.
In a hasty arrange damage limitation exercise on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, Brown said;
"Of course I apologise if I've said anything that's been offensive and I would never put myself in a position where I would want to say anything like that about a woman I'd met”.
A spokesman for Gordon Brown said;
"Mr Brown has apologised to Mrs Duffy personally by phone. He does not think that she is bigoted”.
Well all evidence to the contrary.
The Conservatives said Mr Brown's comments spoke for themselves.
They reveal a man who is not to be trusted, saying one thing in public and another in private.
The private side revealed that Gordon Brown’s opinion of anyone who raises concerns on subjects such as immigration, ‘they are a bigot’.
Today; was a defining moment in the 2010 General Election because it reveals the dark ugly side of Gordon Brown!
This might be the day that Gordon Brown lost the female, elderly and working class vote.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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