Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 5
Bigot [ˈbɪgət]n a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race[from Old French: name applied contemptuously to the Normans by the French, of obscure origin]
The Prime Minister was confronted by 66-year-old Gillian Duffy while on the campaign trail in Rochdale.
He spent nearly five minutes answering her questions and told her: “It’s been very good to meet you.”
He smiled at the woman and then got into a waiting car.
However, a microphone picked up his words to an aide as he drove away.
Mr Brown was caught saying: “That was a disaster.
“You should never have put me with that woman.
“Whose idea was that?”
Mr Brown went on: “It’s just ridiculous.”
His aide then asked: “What did she say?”
Mr Brown replied: “Oh, everything, she’s just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to vote Labour.”
UPDATE: h/t to Ollie at the Red Rag for an excellent poster!
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- April 28, 2010 at 14:34
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April 28, 2010 at 13:28 -
No wonder the U.A.F. are so handsomely funded by this totalitarian regime. They are the real eyes and ears of New Labour, on what they think of us all.
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April 28, 2010 at 13:29 -
Was she shown live on the news this morning talking about giving small businesses more leeway to repay debts given the financial crisis? The conversation I saw was amicable enough, and she appeared to not want to openly chastise Brown, as she evidently wanted to support Labour.
If it is the same conversation, it would suggest that Brown has totally lost touch with heartland Labour, and should be openly rejected by the unions.
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April 28, 2010 at 14:02 -
She’s a bigot because she dared to question the great helmsman, Labour have turned a once desolate wasteland into a thrieving country and this woman failed to recognise this instead troubling him with unimportant questions about national debt and imigration.
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April 28, 2010 at 14:03 -
Satire is dead when a man who said ‘British Jobs For British Workers’ describes someone as bigotted.
A life-long labour supporter with a myriad of concerns is cast aside in a cowardly slander. Other European nations chose to limit Eastern European immigration, why didn’t we?
Labour have continually danced with different partners in the UK, flitting between corporate Britain and Unionised Britain. Immigration was to the benefit of Corporate Britain, enlargement of the public sector was to the benefit of the Unions.
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April 28, 2010 at 14:18 -
Gordon Brown, A Socialist who hates socialist policies, Leader of a Labour party that hates workers, A control freak whop gave europe all our powers, a Scotsman who hates Scottish people, a member of CND who now wants Nukes, a son of the manse who launched illegal wars. ZaNu Labour policies will create a Future fit for phuck all.
There are many words for people like El Gordo but I like Mental Hypocritical Phuckwit as the opener.
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April 28, 2010 at 15:00 -
Ummm – hate to be nit picking but Rochdale folk are on the whole decent people (except the ones who appeared in a recent thread about a stabbing but that type are everywhere). Why are you wishing Jack Straw on them? Rochdale is a Lib Dem seat.
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April 28, 2010 at 15:28 -
Maybe it might just wake up some of the die hard Labour supporters who are just about to sell their souls to this bunch of incompetent amateurs.
Maybe they will see Labour for what they really are.
Chimpanzes with red rossettes not red rossettes on chimpanzes as they have been prepared to put up with in the past due to misguided loyalty. -
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April 28, 2010 at 15:54 -
Paul April 28, 2010 at 14:02
“…into a thrieving country…”So is that meant to be thieving or thriving??
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April 28, 2010 at 16:25 -
I’m sorry for my spelling, thriving is what I was aiming for but your version makes a lot more sense.
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April 28, 2010 at 16:32 -
Don’t forget that Mandelsmarm shot out of his belfry to suggest that no-one would be more upset by Gordy’s comments than Gordy himself. Apparently this sort of comment just isn’t like him.
Yeah, right.
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April 28, 2010 at 17:02 -
Mandy came out with the quote of the day — paraphrasing here — “Sometimes we all say things which we don’t mean.”
Yep, every time he opens his mouth.
God how I hate this grey, humourless streak of wind and piss, with his dyed hair and his Gestapo-style glasses. Let’s put him on a yacht, staffed only with females, and send it off to roam the seas forever.
Or am I being bigoted here?
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April 28, 2010 at 18:22 -
You’re too kind Anna. I despair however that this has already been dubbed in some quarters as bigotgate, do they not realise that Woodward and Bernstein were writing of events in a hotel and not about a water scandal.
However the apology has cheered me up, we sometimes say things we don’t mean and regret it instantly, especially when its caught on microphone, just ask Big Ron. Add that weird smile of his and Gordon truly is the best weapon the Tories have.
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April 28, 2010 at 19:08 -
“Thrieving” – thriving on theft, a way of life in some communities.
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April 28, 2010 at 20:31 -
lenko – “staffed only with females”
May I suggest Harriet Harman for head of staff, especially as you’re going to “send it off to roam the seas forever”.
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April 29, 2010 at 09:46 -
gordon browns punishment should be to be put in school boys uniform,
and peter mindyourson allowed to sodomise him for the day, after all New labour has been doing that to the british public for several years now. -
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April 29, 2010 at 15:49 -
Isn’t it a good job that ‘bigoted’ doesn’t sound EXACTLY like ‘big-gutted’, even when pronounced by a dour son of the manse?
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