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They are freely available online on the Guardian & Observer site you obnoxious little man.
so do not try to take any moral high ground with me just because you have read something in the Observer
The problem is that Rawnsley’s book is a work of fiction
You are clearly prepared only to believe what you want to believe
Just why did Brown sell the UK’s gold ?
was it to bail out certain investment banks, even back in 1999 – 2002 ?:
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would certainly put a slant on previous accounts, eg:
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will the question be answered before the election?
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Great stuff Wit – the jessecrossroadscafe link was fascinating reading and if true (and it sounds plausible) would confirm what a devious snake Brown is (although doubtless he’d say it was in the nations’ best interest to save the merchant banks concerned.
Why though, all these years after the sale, has no British journalist spoke of this?Following today’s gaffe, it seems incredible that Gordon B. has allowed himself to be surrounded by aides who seem incapable or possibly culpable in being unable to remove the microphone he was wearing. Isn’t it precisely their job to ensure that there are no stupid mistakes whilst out campaigning? Did no one vet the labour stalwart and realise that she was of a generation when the thorny question of ‘immigration’ was now likely to be an issue and problematic for Brown?
Let’s be honest it is all a game pretense and I would suspect they are all capable of coming up with something pretty offensive on the quiet. The problem for Brown was the fact he did so while he still had a microphone attached. At least we had the rarity of an honest opinion.
Unfortunately, for Brown he has virtually no ‘people skills’ and on the rare occasions he encounters the general public it is as if he has landed from another planet. Whoever made the decision to send him out on a walkabout must be a complete fool.
So the Prime Minister who is Labour got caught by Sky owned Rupert Murdoch who also owns the Tory biased Sun and even though Sky put the microphone on him they carried on recording and published what was a private conversation on their TV coverage.
Brown and the Labour Party might not be everybodys favourite but i dread to think what will happen to this country if that load of Tory Toff Tw@ts get in power.
Neil – I was a labour Party member for some years during Thatcher’s premiership; went out leafletting / knocking on doors etc. Went to local and the odd regional meeting etc. Met some absolutely great, honest, clever and decent people in the process. Trouble was, I began to notice that the higher-up the Labour Party pole people were, the more contempt they had for the "ordinary" / "working class" person. Sad but true. Brown’s gaffe today just brought it all back to me, the way some in the Labour Party looked down upon the people they contemptuously treat as mere ballot box fodder.
No doubt Cameron and Clegg are made of similar stuff.Nothing surprising about anything in this story but of course the media will spin it however they chose as if nobody in politics has ever been ‘two faced’ when they thought the cameras or microphones were off.
What can’t be denied IMO is how odd and frankly ridiculous Gordon Brown looked standing outside ‘Gillian’s’ house with that million per cent fake and totally inappropriate grin plastered on his face as he tried to put the incident down to mishearing the original conversation………Hogwash!
For that reason alone,he is not fit to lead the government…why oh why can he not have the common sense to be himself rather than try to be something he is clearly not as advised by a bunch of PR advisers…… and the best they can come up with is the worst looking and worst timed smile I have ever seen………….
Trouble was, I began to notice that the higher-up the Labour Party pole people were, the more contempt they had for the "ordinary" / "working class" person. Sad but true. Brown’s gaffe today just brought it all back to me,
Absolutely spot on. This is nothing like Prescott rightly belting some idiot (which was avote winner i believe). It demonstrated once and for all the truth that the left are completely out of touch. Dare to bring up the fact that jobs are disappearing or wages are being suppressed because of immigration and you are a "bigot"
Straight out of the Ken livingstone text book. Clueless
He deserves everything he gets for this contemptuous and arrogant attitude
I feel terribly sorry for the lady involved in all this. I understand she was pretty upset when she heard what he had said about her, and all this publicity is making it worse. Disgusted by Brown for talking about someone in this way, but also disgusted with the media for ‘using’ her.
I think this is another example of the partisan Press singling out Brown for some pretty shoddy treatment and dodgy journalism. They tried the same kind of personal attacks on Clegg a few days ago and pulled back when it backfired. I think the media response to this story is fevered and disproportionate, not least of all because journalists hate talking about the real issues in this election debate and would rather focus on the leaders.
This is what Mrs Duffy said about immigration: "All these eastern Europeans that are coming in – where are they flocking from?". A statement probably not meant to offend, just a bit non PC.
I think the Murdoch press in Sky News have reached a new low in publishing a private conversation between Gordon Brown and his staff.
Brown has been mugged by the gutter press again. If anyone wants to criticise the man under so much pressure for making an off the cuff comment then think Glass houses and all that.
I keep seeing posters with David Cameron on, and I’m not sure if they are Vote Conservative posters or Labour Party posters trying to make him look and sound silly [National Social Service for 16 year olds; what on earth is that all about?].
For a very funny cartoon take on the Brown blunder:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
For those under forty, it’s a song from the Sergeant Pepper album.
AP
think the Murdoch press in Sky News have reached a new low in publishing a private conversation between Gordon Brown and his staff.
How dare the bourgoise press publish the true thoughts of our glorious leader
And if it isnt recorded, its ALL LIES
The above is complete garbage of course. Off the cuff comments by politicians have been published time and again for years. Who can forget Reagan’s "lets bomb russia" joke
still the left have never exactly been keen on free speech and a free media have they?
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