What the Papers Say: Brown

[expat]

The comparison between the Telegraph and the Guardian is interesting.

In the Telegraph Benedict Brogan wrote that if she had been a Tory, he might have got away with it, but to be so rude about one of your own is fatal.

In the Guardian Andrew Rawnsley said that Brown's problem is that this episode shows him acting not out of character, but entirely in it.

I think that shows the extent of Brown's problem, when the right-wing paper is more sympathetic to him than the left-wing paper.

(It also shows that the Telegraph is right-wing but honest, vs the Times which was once a great paper but now is just Murdoch)

[shaunbhoy]

It highlights the level of contempt he holds his own voters in. The mind boggles just how much animosity he reserves for those who vote against him. Good riddance to the two-faced numbskull.

[sasguru]

Strangely enough it's the one time I felt some sympathy for him. The woman was a cretin. "Where are these Eastern Europeans flocking from?"
Doh! Where do you think, numbskull.

[Moscow Mule]

Strangely enough it's the one time I felt some sympathy for him. The woman was a cretin. "Where are these Eastern Europeans flocking from?"
Doh! Where do you think, numbskull.

It was a rather ineloquent way of asking why the hell we opened our borders to the new EU entrants before everybody else, thereby guaranteeing a new wave of immigrants to the country. A question that hasn't been properly answered by our socialist masters IMO.

[NotAllThere]

It was a rather ineloquent way of asking why the hell we opened our borders to the new EU entrants before everybody else, thereby guaranteeing a new wave of immigrants to the country. A question that hasn't been properly answered by our socialist masters IMO.

There's an easy answer to that. Gordon's tap in No. 10 was dripping, and he couldn't get a British plumber.

[MarillionFan]

Frankly he should have gone with the 'Never Apologise' approach.

Could you imagine if that has been Burlusconi(sic) or Sarkozy? No way would they have gone back and apologised, in fact it would have been the other way!!

[Gonzo]

Strangely enough it's the one time I felt some sympathy for him. The woman was a cretin. "Where are these Eastern Europeans flocking from?"
Doh! Where do you think, numbskull.

She was the sort of person that used to be Labour's core voter before they re-branded themselves to appeal to the educated and liberal-minded urban professional.

Oh dear.

[threaded]

Strangely enough it's the one time I felt some sympathy for him. The woman was a cretin. "Where are these Eastern Europeans flocking from?"
Doh! Where do you think, numbskull.

If you read it in context, I think here you mistake that she fluffed what she was asking, but really it was the normal northern dropping-clauses-from-sentences-because-the-other-guy-is-agreeing thing. I believe what she was trying to ask, translated into shandy-drinker language, was more along the lines of "Where are you going to get the money from to house all these Eastern Europeans flocking in?"

HTH

[Cliphead]

Never mind all this what we want to know is did Sue keep her job?

[DodgyAgent]

Strangely enough it's the one time I felt some sympathy for him. The woman was a cretin. "Where are these Eastern Europeans flocking from?"
Doh! Where do you think, numbskull.

He sets himself up to represent the views and needs of "ordinary people". What he needs to understand is that she represents his party's core supporters. What he said gave away what his ilk really think of their voiters. What she said was not the question itself, but was really a question about immigration allowing Eastern europeans in and taking up jobs and using up public services.

What Brown and his fellow acolytes do not realise is that the consequences of their destructive liberal policies are felt, not by them and their posh middle class champagne socialist friends, but by their grass roots supporters.