Wednesday, 28 April 2010

The Guardian asks if bigotgate will be the end of Gordon and Labour?

British PM Gordon Brown

A new headache for Gordon Brown? Photograph: Dominc Lipinski/PA

It had to happen sooner or later. Gordon Brown, whom spinners have been schooling in the arts of warm, casual conversation, has revealed a bit of his spikier side.

After meeting voters in Rochdale, he stepped into the prime ministerial limousine with his microphone still on. He was recorded describing a woman he had just spoken to as "bigoted". They'd been discussing, among other things, immigration and the economy.

Is this the gaffe to bury Gordon? Or do you find his frankness refreshing in a sea of platitudes?

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