Bigotgate - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Infamous Hot Mic Gaffe in Full (2010)
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2024
- On 28 April 2010, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made one of the most infamous gaffes in the history of UK election campaigns, when the Labour leader described 66-year-old Gillian Duffy, a Rochdale local he had just met while campaigning, as a "bigoted woman" - forgetting that a microphone on his lapel was feeding his words back to all of the UK's major broadcasters. Produced here is the footage of Brown and Duffy's full exchange, the recording of Brown's unguarded remarks made in a car immediately after their conversation, and the prime minister's apology speech made outside Duffy's house later that afternoon.
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She was the final nail in Gordon's election campaign. Sunak doesn't even bother to hide his disdain for the electorate.
Gordon Brown never had a disdain for his electorate. He had a person disagreement on policy with this member of the public. His respons in the car was human. He should never have apologized.
Bet she voted for Cameron and the angel of darkness (Osbourne) wonder how she is feeling now ;-)
@@gorgu08 I wonder if she`s even alive. This was 14 years ago, and she was not exactly young at the time.
@@yellyman5483 indeed and I am pretty sure that way the Tories have decimated the British state means her life expectancy would probably have been shortened
@@gorgu08 They have made huge cuts into the NHS and completely destroyed the economy.
Pretty interesting hearing them speak naturally, makes me wish I could be a fly on the wall for all these sort of moments to see their human reactions.
Imagine getting to see Sunak or Starmer actually be a real human for a few seconds rather than just pretending to be one on camera.
Gordon Brown was the last British PM who acted like a human being. He did a lot of good for the country when he saved the British economy in the 2008 financial meltdown. The tory party destroyed the economy when they took power, but the UK was in much better shape when Gordon Brown led the country. Imagine how bad things would have been if somebody like Liz Truss or Suella Braverman had been PM during the financial crises.
@@yellyman5483 Brown covered up child abuse, and destroyed the economy.
Suppposedly Brown was known for having temper tantrums and throwing phones, staplers and other objects around the room. Im not sure we'd want to see brown in unedited form.
He certainly didnt have the upbeat demeanour of blair to conduct a campaign. Every second of him here he sounds insincere, as if he'd rather be anywhere else.
Thats natural, not something that could be learnt. Every labour spin doctor must have seen this, and yet they still allowed him to assume the position of leadership anyway.
Thats always been the problem between the tory and labour brands. Tories are chomping at the bit to stick the knife in the back of their leaders, whereas labour will keep an incompetent leader around until he resigns. It wouldnt surprise me that if Kinnock didnt resign, he would have been allowed to run in 1997 as well!
@@Nick-io9uk Brown has ASD.
@@MarkHarrison733 It wouldnt surprise me if he has a touch of it. Which further compounds the mystery of allowing him into such a position. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and having such individuals serve in such position where, in this day and age, they are expected to be 'people persons' is bizarre. Analytical backroom strategist, yes. Campaigner & speaker who must parade himself on TV all the time & talk to the public in their own language. God, no.
2010 was a simpler time
The good, old days. I'm getting old.
I was 12 in year 8, i only remember a packet of Fredo’s being 10p 😂😂
How so? If you'd have 2000, id agree. But by 2010 we'd already seen bank frauds to previously unbelievable degrees, years of insane foreign policy since 9/11
The amazing thing is that nothing seems to have moved on since 2010. I guess covid/lockdowns were a crazy time, but really, since the mid 2000s we've seemed to be in limbo, in a kind of stagnant purgatory.
I wish back then we were told to work and live in Europe because in the long run the UK has let down its own people it told to stay in Britain whilst letting in non British galore! It's gotten to the point where the UK works for nobody now!
And look at the UK now
"All these Eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?" Presumably Eastern Europe. Haha. This is weirdly nostalgic. I had turned 18 a week before this. The 2010 general election was my first vote. How time flies.
The UK was a member of the UK in 2010. Some of the East European countries were members of the UK, and came to the UK to work and pay taxes to the UK. I`m with Gordon Brown on this one. She was a bigot.
@@yellyman5483 Brown had made racist speeches.
@@MarkHarrison733 More racist speeches than Suella Braverman and Sunak? i dont think so.
@@yellyman5483 Brown called for "British jobs for British workers". His speeches led directly to Sunak and Braverman. He also caused Brexit.
@@MarkHarrison733 I don´t believe there`s a racist bone in Gordon Browns body, so stop making up lies about Gordon Brown while you`re covering up for the Tory party.
A sliding doors moment in politics!
Personally, I think he ‘handled’ her spontaneous questioning very well! It’s the fact that ‘nothing has changed’…….
There has been massive changes since 2010. There has been 14 year of hard core Conservative policies. Massive cuts in welfare, education and in the NHS. And then you have Brexit which i believe was a disaster for the British economy.
Exactly my first thought too! The “same old, same old.”
Gordan "let them eat cake brown "
*_You’re joking, not another one_*
"Not anutherrrr wunn?!" 😂
LOL
Gordon Bennett!
0:11 I wish the governments we've had encouraged younger people to work in Britian since the UK has been a nightmare with finding work and achieving ambitions.
I dare say we'd have never left the EU if schools had encouraged more British integration in Europe rather than telling us to stay put, study here and fund work here, whilst letting Europeons into Britian.
See how Labour hate the working-class 😤😤
Hardly, Brown was telling the truth. You and that woman just want a politician to re-confirm your own prejudices, and that wasn’t him.
@@jpc2470 Very nasty
@@mrhat50 Sarcasm?
brown saved the world economy and oversaw the amazing growth under Tony Blair
if you think the country is better off today than it was from 1997-2010 then you need your head checked
@@jpc2470 Brown made racist speeches.
Oh dear Gordon!
He should have nipped that in the bud a lot earlier. He encouraged that exchange.
Labour has always hated English people, and the working class.
The Labour party was formed by working class people for working class people. Back then anyway.
It stll is!
Brown overdid it rather like Sunak, keeps ratling of 11:57 f all the achivements of the Lab govt
He wasn't really interested in what she had to say....the woman couldnt get a word in.!
Down was never a people's man but a bit of a technocrat
Mate not you again all you do is comment on videos to hate on a few Labour PMs 💀💀
@@user-lo5kj8im5d Labour covered up child abuse.
Bullshit. Put the Sun down and think for yourself.
Labour gave you the NHS and probably built your childhood home.
1. He was right.
2. The incident made little difference in the election either way.
The electorate was ready for a change in 2010 after 13 years of Labour. I kind of feel sorry for Labour now, since they are running with Keir Starmer as their leader. I have no believe in Keir Starmer at all. He loves Tony Blair, and Tonly Blair right leaning New Labour policies. Keir Starmer has not made any promises to get rid of any of the Tory parties cuts in welfare, healthcare or education. Instead he is talking about law and order etc. Keir Starmer should leave Labour for the Tory party, and run as a moderate Tory politican. He has got nothing to do in the Labour party. If the choice was between Sunak or Keir Starmer i would sit out the whole election. Keir Starmer is not going to make any improvements. The Labour party should elect a real socialist, and not a washed out tory light politician like Keir Starmer.
@@yellyman5483they had that in 2019. Look at the results
@@briandelaney9710 The 2019 election was a Brexit election. The 52% who voted in favor of Brexit was of course going to vote for the Tory party, making sure that Boris won so that he could deliver Brexit. The Labour partys origin is socialism. They should NEVER leave their political DNA.
The problem with Jeremy Corbyn is that he moved to far to the left, and endorsed communist policies. But he had a big result in the 2017 general election. In the 2017 general election, Labour increased its share of the vote to 40%, with its 10% rise their largest since 1945. This resulted in 30 more seats and a hung parliament.
That meant that Labour could actually win elections with Jeremy Corbyn. Labour will not win more than 40-41% of the popular vote in the upcoming election. People are not energized by Keir Starmer. He is a boring candidate with no agenda for real change. The only difference now in the political landscape is that the Tory party will lose 10-15 % of their votes from the 2019 election.
The reform party which is an extreme right wing party will make up the difference. So parliament is going to be dominated by a dull new Labour version of the Labour party, and two hard core right wing political parties, the Tory Party, and the Reform Party. Nothing is going to change. You are only going to replace one conservative party with another a bit less conservative party.
Keir Starmer is only another rich baby boomer who is completely out of touch with the British people. He is too old in my view. He will be 70 years in a couple of years, and is really not the candidate to deliver the real change Britain is needing. You need somebody who can energize the youth the same way Bernie Sanders energized the kids in the U.S.
He was wrong on every level
@@briandelaney9710 The 2019 general election was a Brexit election. Boris Johnson called a snap election to do Brexit, and the result was a record win for the tory party. Two years earlier Labour got 40% with Jeremy Corbyn. 40% in the popular vote is a very good result for Labour. It seems that Labour will win 40% in the upcoming election, but that is not because Keir Starmer is very popular or beloved in the population. It`s more because the Tory party is very unpopular after 14 years in power.
W.E.F. Stooge.
Brown had made racist speeches while Prime Minister.
Like?
@@ehnowthen "British jobs for British workers".
@MarkHarrison733 That is not racist.
@@RobertBurke-tq9zu How is it not???
@MarkHarrison733 Because he doesn't mention colour or race, you are not very bright, evidently.
I think her line of questioning was out of line. At the time the UK was a full member of the European Union. A member of the EU can`t deny other EU members to travel into another EU country. Now that the UK has left the UK it`s a completely different matter.
Labour refused to limit immigration in 2004, unlike France and Germany.
@@MarkHarrison733 Why would he deny members of a EU country entrance to the UK when the UK was a full member of the EU? So what if France and Germany barred East Europeans. The UK didn`t have to jump when France and Germany told them to. The people from East Europe came to the UK to work, and to pay taxes. I`m kind of disgusted by the racism we see in the baby boomer generation in the UK. You dont like anybody who is not from the UK. Why dont you vote for the reform party? You seem to belong there.
@@yellyman5483 Labour made the minimum wage worthless by allowing uncontrolled mass immigration.
See why Wilson's government limited immigration in 1965.
Brown caused Brexit by reneging on Labour's promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
He was a bully, notice how he waved his hand in her face to exert his authority
Ccomplaining about eastern-european immigrant workers to the most pro-business Labour leader is funny in hindsight, all things considered.
Brown was pro-welfare and anti-business.
Actually a politician who spoke the truth. It was not nice, but facts aren't supposed to be nice.
imagine if he had doubled down then and said "I said she was a bigot because it is true!"
Wonder how she is feeling now with the double whammy of higher debt and public services that have been raped
There's a difference between a fact and an opinion. Perception of bigotry is subjective, not objective.
@@ykst6685 Brown had made racist speeches as Prime Minister.
Gordon was right.
I agree. She was a bigot, and her statement was out of line. He should never have apologized. The 2010 general election was a loser for Labour because the UK had troops in Iraq. The war in Iraq was extremely unpopular in the electorate, and Gordon Brown had not removed British troops during his time as the PM. Had he pulled out the troops from Iraq, he would have had a much better chance in the general election that he eventually had. People were ready for a change in 2010 after 13 years of Labour. Now it seems that people are ready for another change after 14 years of Tory rule.
@@yellyman5483 absolutely right.
@@yellyman5483 She's not a bigot at all, you fool. She had a legitimate concern.
@@kingmilanovic6733 I`d prefer Gordon Brown over Keir Starmer as the leader of Labour. Gordon Brown was never a huge fan of Tony Blairs right wing "new labour" policies. Keir Starmer however is very fond of Tony Blair, and wants to continue Tony Blairs new labour policies. He`s going to win this election, not because people in the UK are very fond of him and his political project, but because they are fed up with the Tory party and Rishi Sunak.
He was completely wrong - politicians being unwilling to discuss the publics concerns over immigration directly led to us leaving the EU.
Stupid mam. How many votes did that lose Labour?
Not enough to impact the outcome of the election
@@SlimHandleMight have stopped going into coalition
@@joecurran2811 Brown was unelectable.
Zero integrity. So glad he got caught out.
Zero integrity? What a load of rubbish from you
Hmmm 14 years of corrupt vandalising of public services, stealing from the tax payer and the establishment of a post truth politics, pretty sure if this gent was still in charge the UK would not be the $h1tshow it is today
@@samt7351 I'm sure he'd call you worse than a bigot if he had the chance. Grovelling later if he was recorded. Can't believe you still support him after that. What a mug you are.
And the Tories have plenty of integrity, eh? 😂😂😂😂
@@kazamshah4543 No, none of them do. All the same.