Labour Embarrassment – Brown calls Typical Labour voter ‘bigoted’
From the transcript this sounded bad, but the reality is even worse. Did I hear a Nokia being thrown in the middle.
Gordon Brown committed a major election gaffe today by describing an elderly voter as a “bigot”.
Gordon Brown committed a major election gaffe today by describing an elderly voter as a “bigot”.
After having a discussion with the life-long Labour voter in the street, Brown then got into his car to say: “You should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Sue’s I think.
“Everything she said – she’s just a bigoted woman.”
He was also heard to call the encounter a “disaster”. I
t is understood that “Sue” is Brown’s assistant Sue Nye. The gaff happened after a microphone was accidently left on the PM’s shirt as he drove off in his ministerial car.
He had told the woman, while talking to her in the street: “It has been very good to meet you – and you are wearing the right colour today. How are your grandchildren?
“A good family. Good to see you.”
The woman had confronted Brown on the subject of the deficit, tuition fees, benefits and immigration.
She told him: “My family have voted Labour all their lives – my father even sung Red Flag, but now Iam ashamed of saying I’m Labour.
Perhaps prompting Brown’s criticism that she was a “bigot”, she also told Brown: “You can’t say anything about the immigrants – all these Eastern Europeans were flocking in.”
No excuses this man and his party are a National Embarrassment.
Gordon Brown calls Labour voter ‘bigoted’ – Channel 4 News.
Could a few words change the political landscape in the UK for ever?
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