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Brown sticks his foot in his mouth
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Doctor_Gloom wrote: »She did indeed claim to be a Labour Party supporter but at the same time had BNP written all over her. So fair play to Gordon for outing yet another closet fascist.
Post like yours bring nothing to the debate about immigration, just shout people down and label them as extreme Fascists....Very sad IMO.....
Do you honestly believe your going to bring integration and harmony to our society with that attitude...........Ostrich...........Head...........Sand........0 -
Doctor_Gloom wrote: »She did indeed claim to be a Labour Party supporter but at the same time had BNP written all over her.
Lol do you really think that?
65 year olds weren't brought up in the culture of political correctness that now pervades British society. Have you never heard old people innocently make make off-the-cuff remarks about 'immigrants' or 'Asians' or 'black people' before? It's simply because those people weren't brought up in a society were people knew from an earlier age they had to be extremely careful what they say in things related to race and ethnicity.
If you were brought up sometime between the 80s and the present, then the way you've been taught to think in the respect of race is probably very different as a result of political correctness.
The BNP is a party that has members who believe the Holocaust never took place, or that second generation West Indian immigrants should be 'sent home'. Hardly equivalent to that old women's innocent remarks....sure, she must be a card carrying BNP member.0 -
Doctor_Gloom wrote: »She did indeed claim to be a Labour Party supporter but at the same time had BNP written all over her. So fair play to Gordon for outing yet another closet fascist.
No, you have already tried to smear the woman by claiming unthruthfully that she had a BNP poster in the window at her home. She wasn't a BNP voter, she was a labour voter confronting the leader of the party she supports over issues she was concerned about.0 -
It was brown himself who suggested these issues should be debated.
Here he is in this Guido Fawkes video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iEoeCJXEtM&feature=player_embeddedIf I don't reply to your post,
you're probably on my ignore list.0 -
Gorgeous_George wrote: »Whoever chose to broadcast his private words should hang her (or his) head in shame - and be sacked.
GG
Why? Gordon said it, they recorded it. It's not very 'statesmanlike' for him to make comments like this regardless of what was said between them.0 -
Why? Gordon said it, they recorded it. It's not very 'statesmanlike' for him to make comments like this regardless of what was said between them.
Statesmanship is about the public image a person presents. Private comments between colleagues should have no bearing on it. Everyone should be entitled to speak frankly without fear to their private confidants. I'd be rather worried about the mental health of someone who didn't let off steam now and then when confronted with the idiocy of the general public.
In effect, Gordon's privacy has been invaded here, albeit inadvertently and due perhaps to his own carelessness - but choosing to broadcast it was low.0 -
Degenerate wrote: »Statesmanship is about the public image a person presents. Private comments between colleagues should have no bearing on it. Everyone should be entitled to speak frankly without fear to their private confidants. I'd be rather worried about the mental health of someone who didn't let off steam now and then when confronted with the idiocy of the general public.
In effect, Gordon's privacy has been invaded here, albeit inadvertently and due perhaps to his own carelessness - but choosing to broadcast it was low.
It just goes to re-enforce the publics image of politicians in general....
Politicians are 2 faced .......As for his "Privacy being invaded" ...:rotfl:
It gave us all an insight into what he/they are truely like and shows the total dis respect they have for us .....0 -
Degenerate wrote: »In effect, Gordon's privacy has been invaded here, albeit inadvertently and due perhaps to his own carelessness - but choosing to broadcast it was low.
But if you're really concerned about privacy surely you shouldn't be a politician, especially if you're asking the country to vote for you.0 -
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I think you're confusing a statesman with a salesman.Degenerate wrote: »Statesmanship is about the public image a person presents.
"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions." - Aristotle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statesman0
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