I have to admit that he went up in my estimation because of this (and the over the televised debates and, and the rest of it, etc) :lol:
He was basically having a go at his people, in a "sheesh... where did you dig that one up? Wot a disaster... why am I doing this walkabout cr@p?"
When his people ask "what was the problem?" in a "did we miss something?" kind of way, he replied "she was just a bigotted woman" in a very calm and end-of-conversation fashion, which in that particular exchange, in that car, considering who they were and what job they were doing at the time, meant "oh, it wasn't a big deal, don't worry boys you did ok... she was just an opinionated woman that I could have done without..."
The big mistake he made was that he had a microphone on...
And moments later a camera crew, with a reporter who admits "I haven't actually heard it", approaches a jolly old pensioner who has a "I just spoke to the pm and said my piece, I'll be on the telly" smile on her face, and asks, in a "not sure I should be doing this" tone of voice - "He just called you a bigot - what do you think of that?"
First, he didn't call her a bigot, he said she was a "bigotted woman", which has a slightly different meaning (I had to look it up too). All across Newsnight etc that night they were saying "bigot" - did anyone else notice that the next night all BBC correspondents had changed the reference to "bigotted woman", the only people still saying "bigot" were interviewees with an anti-Brown bias?
Second, they initially gave this woman the impression that he had made some sort of public statement condemning her - that's what made the story so big. He didn't, he said it in private. He and his team c--ked up in that they didn't get the mic removed. The reporter that put the question to her knew this and felt embarrassed doing it...
Thirdly, he can deal with this kind of sh1t - it's part of the bluddy job description. But look what they've done to her just to get a story?!! Complete F U C K E RS, I hate them (the media), and us for wanting and supporting this sort of bullsh1t...
Mebbe she is bigotted (not a "bigot", which can only be a perjorative term the way most of us use the language). I know of some ordinary people who've also heard what she said and whose reactions have been "of course she bluddy is!!"... BUT, then so is Mr Brown, so am I, ... we are ALL bigotted to some extent (= opinionated to the extent of sometimes being intolerant of other peoples views, esp religion, politics, etc)
Anywhooo - I was seriously considering not voting this time... It probably is time for a change, but I am still not ready to go back to the Conservatives, especially with the people they have at the top... I don't trust Saint Clegg at all (and I actually disagree with some of his apparent policies) - and because of the developments of the last few weeks I cannot safely vote LibDem as a protest/wotever, because there's a real danger he might get in now if too many people do that!
So who can I vote for?? Enter the media circus with people dissing Gordon Brown because he can't relate to the public with his eye contact and body language, telling me he's doomed, etc... - I'm watching the same sh1t they are, to me he seems a bloke so passionate about getting the job done and so scared of what he believes the others are going to do, that he forgets what his bluddy spin-doctors and media-fukwits keep trying to train him to do... I LOVE IT! That's what i'm like... the other two are just... I dunno what what... mebbe they could do the job, but I can't hear any better solutions, Mr Clegg, especially, just sounds like the media I hate so much...
The bottom line, as far as I can make out for my own decision making, is that whoever gets in is f@cked. Overall tax is going to have to go back to levels of the mid-80s, the housing-market is going to have to crash properly, there are going to be strikes, unemployment, etc, etc, it's going to be a complete and utter fukfest... SO, whoever it is, they're unlikely to last a full term, and they will go down in flames, and in 10-20 years they will be marked as one of the failures in the history of UK politics...
I've been through what we're about to face before, though this one might be worse. All we have to do is survive it, and we need some sort of management team up the top... personally I'd rather have the dour b@stard who wants to get on with the job, doesn't know how to charm me, and who isn't promising me a load of stuff that I don't think we can afford on top of telling me that we have to cut it all back at the same time...
I was open to suggestions, but over the last few weeks:
* Conservatives and Libdems have lost me through their own utterances
* Gordon Brown - who I didn't have an opinion on or know much about - turns out not to be some sort of sickly media whore
* Things like this "bigot" issue have convinced me to vote Labour
I'll take whatever we get lumbered with after May 6th.
(I was REAL wary about posting this - rip it apart like you want folks :lol:.
Any actual "political" content is all my own opinion, obviously, and I've only left it in to illustrate how there might be some people, like me, who will actually be helped to decide "Labour" because of things like what the media did the other night... I'd already decided a day or two before bigot-thang, but all it did was confirm my opinion that, for the present, Brown/Darling is who I want in charge...)
