Brown sticks his foot in his mouth

barrymoney

On Radio5 they've just said GB is going back to Rochdale to apologise in person (could be cringe-worthy). Hopefully the woman is out.

Degenerate

doire wrote: »

How is she a bigot?

She went on general moan about all the ills she perceives in health, education, benefits, the provision of local services, etc, then towards the end threw in Eastern Europeans migrants as a cause "but you can't say anything" (you just did, love.)

She's quite obviously ignorant of the economic case in favour of allowing migrant workers, the fact that they have actually contributed to the UK economy, increasing the tax take and allowing more cash for the provision of services (failures in the local distribution of resources notwithstanding). Or the fact that it was an obligation arising from EU membership that we could not avoid after 2011 anyway, other than by withdrawing from the EU with serious economic fallout.

Basically her level of understanding of the issues that concern her is inadequate, so she falls back on blaming the foreigners. Yes, this is bigotry, of the casual variety that is all too common in some parts of this country.

Wheezy_2

Bigoted woman to Brown: ""You can't say anything about the immigrants because you're saying that you're … but all these eastern European what are coming in, where are they flocking from?"

Yes I know it's popular to blame 'those eastern Europeans' when economic times are bad.

Brown should have been more careful, but she's a bigot alright.

The_White_Horse

See, i would have had a tiny bit more respect for GB if he refused to apolgise. If he said, no, i called her a bigot and SHE IS a bigot and therefore I will not apologise, he would have looked stronger.

why didn't he do this?

Degenerate

The_White_Horse wrote: »

See, i would have had a tiny bit more respect for GB if he refused to apolgise. If he said, no, i called her a bigot and SHE IS a bigot and therefore I will not apologise, he would have looked stronger.

why didn't he do this?

The problem is that she is representative of a large part of the electorate all the parties have to court.

There should be an IQ test you have to pass to get a license to vote.

nicko33

Degenerate wrote: »

There should be an IQ test you have to pass to get a license to vote.

As long as there is also an "Honourableness" test for the candidates.

tanmu

jinky67 wrote: »

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I don't know what that means....I'm not sure if you agree or disagree with what I posted!

Kohoutek

Heyman wrote: »

[/I]I'm sorry Mandy, but that's blatantly b0ll0x isn't it?

Mandelson is stepping up his plans for an exit strategy no doubt...

He said he would prepared to join a Tory government not long ago...I suspect he's on the phone to Nick Clegg as we speak.

Heyman_2

barrymoney wrote: »

On Radio5 they've just said GB is going back to Rochdale to apologise in person (could be cringe-worthy). Hopefully the woman is out.

He's going to her house! Press and TV Cameras are lying in wait apparently.

I hope she slams the door in his face

mardatha

There should be an IQ test you have to pass to get a license to vote.[/QUOTE]
There should be another one for those who wish to be voted FOR !:rotfl: