Just a week before the elections in Great Britain on May 6th, the sitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown (photo right) called 65-year-old voter Gillian Duffy (photo left) “bigoted”, who had asked him critical questions among other things about immigration and national debt at an election campaign event in Manchester.

He made the remark during the return trip in his car, when he thought the lapel mike that came from the sending radio transmitter Sky and was hanging on his shirt was turned off. Whether the offended lady will still give him her vote is more than uncertain. In any case, the appearance will have given occasion to think for some who have seen the embarrassing pictures. The Tories can lean back and watch while Labor makes a laughingstock of itself.

Brown says in so many words:

That was a disaster…should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Sue’s I think Just ridiculous. … She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour. I mean, it’s just ridiculous. Sue pushed her up towards me.

You can see the scene here:

The disappointed and furious reaction of the lady:

SpOn reports:

The radio establishments transmitted the outburst of the prime minister in full detail. The retiree who was suddenly brought out into the open reacted indignantly when she heard Brown’s statements and demanded an apology. “He is an educated man. Why does he use such words?”

The PM showed remorse thereupon: “I ask this lady repeatedly for forgiveness,” he said on BBC Radio. He doesn’t actually think the things that he said about her. According to a report from his speaker, Brown personally contacted Duffy by telephone and excused himself personally.

On top of that, he later had himself brought by his service Jaguar to Duffy’s house and personally excused himself in her living room. After the conversation, he exited the door smiling and said that he had “misunderstood” Duffy. He is a “repentant sinner.” Duffy herself didn’t appear again in front of the house. She only gave notification that the media must disappear from her entryway.

“I blame myself,” Brown said according to the British news agency PA. “One should also point out that I was helpful to the radio people, that I had hurried in my car with an active microphone to the next appointment, and it was a private conversation that they sent out.” He had gotten irritated about the question of immigration. The retiree had asked the governing head among other things what he would think of doing in the face of record debt, the immigration from East Europe and university tuitions.

A simple little citizen with inconvenient questions has been able to bring the governing era of Labour in Great Britain down, all because of a tiny microphone button.

(Translation: Anders Denken)

Just a week before the elections in Great Britain on May 6th, the sitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown (photo right) called 65-year-old voter Gillian Duffy (photo left) \"bigoted\", who had asked him critical questions among other things about immigration and national debt at an election campaign event in Manchester. He made the remark during the ...

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