Gordon Brown crashes the Labour Campaign....!

[tech_guy]

Whoopsy! Edited April 28, 2010 by tech_guy

[K.C.Leblanc]

Whoopsy!

 

And yet people loved Winston Churchil for this sort of thing.

[triggmiester]

Who cares, if thats his opinion fair play. Nice to hear some honesty.

 

Lets see how long it takes Cameron to copy him if he thinks hes getting more publicity than him.

[Gatt]

Just head this on the radio - lol

[Jamo]

Good Ol' Browner!!

 

That is the ultimate in foot in mouth syndrome!

[Hightower]

Who cares, if thats his opinion fair play. Nice to hear some honesty.

 

But it wasn't honesty. It was a slip up. It wasn't as if he meant to say those things so people could hear. He's not brave, just extremely stupid.

[Gatt]

The things Labour will do (and say) to try and get votes eh?

Desperate times and all that...

[webman]

Any publicity is good publicity, right?

[triggmiester]

But it wasn't honesty. It was a slip up. It wasn't as if he meant to say those things so people could hear. He's not brave, just extremely stupid.

 

So because he said it in his car not to reporters it wasn't honesty???

[Rydra]

If I were them, I'd be having words with Sky news over publishing recordings when they shouldn't have been recording...

 

I'm not a big fan of the press, especially when they pull stunts like this, recording people after official interviews have finished.

It's called having a personal opinion, we're all entitled to one, and entitled to not have them plastered over the internet.

[localzuk]

So because he said it in his car not to reporters it wasn't honesty???

 

The dishonest bit is the part where he didn't bother to tell the woman to her face, instead he gave the usual political spin as answers, and didn't point out his real feelings to her questions in public.

[Rydra]

The dishonest bit is the part where he didn't bother to tell the woman to her face, instead he gave the usual political spin as answers, and didn't point out his real feelings to her questions in public.

 

How often in our daily routines do we think that the people we work with are idiots, have done something stupid etc?

 

How would we like it if our personal discussions on them were publicised for all, especially the person in question could see?

[torledo]

But it wasn't honesty. It was a slip up. It wasn't as if he meant to say those things so people could hear. He's not brave, just extremely stupid.

 

how was it not honest.....it was clearly his opinion of the meeting with the woman, and it was a private conversation, so if you can't be honest in private with an aide when can you be. i bet it was a darn sight more honest than the grovelling apology that undoubtedly followed. ofcourse it's a slip up because he was caught on mic, and he'd never be that 'honest' with the cameras rolling. More's the pity.....it was a real 'the thick of it' moment. v. funny.

 

this election is just ridiculous, it was bad enough the opposition missing all the open goals presented to them, now labour go and score an own goal in injury time to kill the contest off.

[Hightower]

So because he said it in his car not to reporters it wasn't honesty???

 

Okay, my bad - he was being honest. But he had no intent for anyone to hear it. So he isn't honest in the brave sense, as much as honest in the stupid sense (as in 'Doh! Let's just put my head in my hands while they replay that audio')

[Hightower]

How would we like it if our personal discussions on them were publicised for all, especially the person in question could see?

 

How many celebrities have met this same fate? It's part of being in the lime light. If he is capable of running this country then he should also be capable of taking his own slip ups on the chin.

[CAM]

But it isn't honesty. He was all nice to her then behind her back, he slags the woman off. It's no different to me smiling at you going "Your really good at this" then retreating to my office and slagging you off to another colleague.

 

Of more concern is what if he got in the car and discussed something of strict confidentiality with a mic still attached to him!

[torledo]

How often in our daily routines do we think that the people we work with are idiots, have done something stupid etc?

 

How would we like it if our personal discussions on them were publicised for all, especially the person in question could see?

 

yep. but brown just has to chalk it down to experience. he can't complain about it, except give the idiots who thought it was a good idea for him to go out and meet ordinary people a rollicking.

 

he's fighting this election knowing he won't be allowed to stick around whatever the result. So what the hell...it's not as if they had a chance of winning - and if the likes of balls and the millibands are consigned to years in the political wilderness then it isn't gordon's problem, he'll get a job 'saving the world' somewhere and will be probably be less hated than blair and cameron in this country. so it's not all bad news.

[webman]

If he is capable of running this country then he should also be capable of taking his own slip ups on the chin.

 

Some would argue he's incapable of even doing the former...

[Rydra]

He now has to live with the consequences yes, but it doesn't mean Sky, or any other press company should be allowed to do these things. Freedom of the press should not be a license to destroy peoples work and personal lives. Might as well give them guns too...

[36Degrees]

I've just watched the BBC 1 o'clock news and irrespective of your political allegiences I think he's shot himself in the foot with this one. As well as the fact that she started heckling GB on the economy, Nick Robinson heard the exchange and claims she made no racist comments. He then describes the meeting as a disaster before calling the woman a bigot. She said that she was still going to vote Labour but then having heard what he had said she now claims she won't be voting at all and doesn't care if he is reelected or not.

 

I would have laughed as hard watching the bulletin no matter who did it but not only was it a party leader, it was the PM!

[Sirbendy]

We've got it on the office plasma behind me..first I knew of it was the NM howling with laughter..heh.

 

Don't like brown, but then i don't like any of them overmuch. All politicians are, at heart, bent. In it for the cash and the perks, not for the country. Wouldn't give a broken Jetdirect for any of 'em.

[mattx]

Brilliant - he has my vote now. Flipping bigoteded women everywhere, someone needs to stand up to these women. It's an epidemic !!

[CyberNerd]

if it was prescott, he'd have just lamped her

[pauljonze]

Was it any coincidence the mic belonged to the Dirty Digger's News Channel... sorry i meant Sky News.

[Sirbendy]

if it was prescott, he'd have just lamped her

 

I did say that whilst chuckling...