Gordon Goofed!! And called a much to say local lady a bigot in private, thinking the microphone was off.
The media have danced on this like its the bacchanale of lesbos with no tomorrow in the summer of 1968 after an lsd/viagra cocktail accidentally got into all the water, er no, these are journoes, alcohol supply...
COME ON!! Let's stop being patronised.
If you listen to the poor man, he wasn't rabid, he didn't call the woman a 'northern bitch', or witch for that matter, or even a bastard like John Major did, he called her a bigot.
And what is a bigot? Someone with entrenched prejudiced ideas that won't be moved by reason, nothing worse.
Is this bad language to use? No.
Was it complementary? No.
Was he right? I don't know, I don't think so judging by what I heard.
Was it said in private? Yes.
Was it said by someone under pressure of a tight schedule, judging the encounter a mistake, and putting it in the light of it should never have happened, when he is fighting for his job, and his beliefs, and disagreed with the person? Yes.
Is it understandable, have we ever done anything like that? don't you fucking lie and say no, because then I know you will have done worse.
The journoes with their cynical mockery and band wagon jumping king making pride most certainly will have done much worse.
I am not defending Labour, or joining sides, or being contrary. I just think the baying crowd need to pipe down and stop their hypocrisy.
Any way, now, I beleive the good lady socialist is about to make a lot of money from the gaffe, so maybe thanks are in order...
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