What's the bigot deal?

I feel genuinely sorry for Gordon Brown and Mrs Rochdale. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to hear what people say about me when I am not there – especially as I know that I slag off everyone behind their backs so assume they do it to me too.
It is what people do.
The best thing about a party is talking about the other guests’ clothes on the way home.
So the only thing that Gordon Brown did wrong was to get caught doing what every human being does.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t very, very funny.

Remember the “Your own mother’s piss” woman from the Thick of It?

Talk about life imitating art.
Or, more accurately, life imitating art imitating life.





What Hugh says at the end about people is what politicians actually think of them.
And the politicians are right.
People are fat and awful.
But it is funny to actually hear one say it.

I like the irony that Gordon Brown’s people actually requested for the Sky radio mic so we could hear what he had to say to the people.
Talk about hoisted by your own petard.


Personally I don’t think the issue is really that fact that he called her a bigoted woman. Whether she is actually a bigot or not is immaterial (personally I don’t think she is one - unless we are living in a country where the vast majority of the working classes are also bigots, which I really hope is not the case).
What he called her is immaterial - he could have called her a Betty-from-Corrie-look-a-like-bint, or, as I thought I heard him say, a “big titted woman” and it wouldn’t have been any better or worse. The fact that he was caught slagging off someone less than a minute after he was telling her she was lovely is why this is newsworthy.

As with anything like this first there is the backlash against Brown, and now we are on Day 2 comes the backlash against the backlash. Left leaning commentators are criticising the Tory supporting press’ reaction to the story.
It would be interesting to see what reaction they would have if David Cameron has made a similar faux pas. I have a feeling though would not be so generous towards him – especially as they already portray him as being an out-of-touch toff despite having no evidence other than his upbringing.
Isn’t it more of a transgression for a labour leader, the leader of the party of the working people, to be caught out as being out of touch with the common man?



Still, there are worse things that you can do while wearing a radio microphone.





But just to reiterate what I said at the start of this piece – no-one should have to go though what poor Mr Brown and Mrs Rochdale had to yesterday, but the world is a little bit more magical as a result.

These are my own personal views and not those of the BBC.If any offence is taken to the above I assure you that the offending comments are ironic.