What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?
As he went to get into his car, Mr Brown told her: "Very nice to meet you, very nice to meet you."
But off camera, and not realising he still had a Sky News microphone pinned to his shirt, he was heard to tell an aide: "That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous..."
Asked what she had said, he is heard to reply: "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."
BIG mistake
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I don't think she said anything too bad. The worst bit was near the end when she was trying to escape and he kept following her trying to talk about her family! That was more cringeworthy than the bigot comment.
clv101 wrote:
I don't think she said anything too bad. The worst bit was near the end when she was trying to escape and he kept following her trying to talk about her family! That was more cringeworthy than the bigot comment.
It's a PR disaster, that's all I know. It's got everything...Gordon being judgemental, Gordon showing poor judgement, Gordon blaming his employees for this own mistakes, Gordon not realising the microphone was still switched on....
The microphone and broadcasting van were owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's all a conspiracy.
A vast number of tweets are saying that a bigoted woman was called a bigoted woman. The rest are saying that what Gordon really said was big titted woman.
That this is considered big news is a sign that we are moving to a presidential system (without the checks and balances) and personality driven politics.
biffvernon wrote:Why didn't Mrs Duffy ask him about Peak Oil, global warming and the electricity generation gap?
Oh, yeah, like almost everyone else she was more worried about immigrants.
Actually, the thing she was most worried about was the fiscal deficit, and Gordon didn't want to talk much about that either.
I don't think she said anything that bad. She sounded like a fairly typical working-class labour voter to me, and I don't really understand why he reacted so badly.
Her points were quite reasonable and delivered with northern bluntness. She had every right to say what she did whilst remaining calm. A big mistake by GB.
I wonder what he says after an interview with Paxman or Humphries? She was a pussycat in comparison.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
