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Brown is now screwed

Postby TheStoner » Apr 28th, '10, 14:35



Well that's that then. Election decided by pensioner popping out for some bread. Classic! Brown must be doomed now surely? :D

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Postby Tomo » Apr 28th, '10, 14:48

Perhaps the real news is Gordon Brown telling the truth :lol: We can't have politicians going off message and doing that.

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Postby Klangster1971 » Apr 28th, '10, 15:18

That's absolutely hilarious........ Bring on tomorrow's debate! He is absolutely screwed now.

For those who've not seen it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 649012.stm

His apology afterwards is even worse!!!

Still, it can't be any surprise that politicians are slightly different behind the public facade, eh?

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Postby pcwells » Apr 28th, '10, 17:50

No suprise either that it was Murdoch's Sky News that *ahem* accidentally *ahem* left the wireless microphone on him as he was getting into his car and recorded his every word.

Or am I just too cynical?

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Postby kolm » Apr 28th, '10, 18:15

I want to see them ask for it back

"Mr Brown... you know that microphone we left on you? Can we, er, have it back please?"

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Postby Farlsborough » Apr 28th, '10, 18:31

Heh heh! :lol:

While it's fun to watch politicians squirm, it's a bit below the belt, isn't it? Everyone and anyone in a career that deals with people in any way will have had moments where they've had a quiet mutter after a frustrating incident, it's hardly a shocking incident. I suppose people will say "but it's the Prime Minister, he should know better" - well, sorry to break this to you folks, but he's just a man!

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Postby A J Irving » Apr 28th, '10, 21:12

It'll be forgotten in a week except by people who have an interest in bringing it up again. The media do like to make out that elections are big popularity contests like Britain's Got Talent but the electorate on the whole are a lot less shallow then the papers would like us to be. Most people are genuinely concerned about policies and what each party could do for the country.

Whilst this is pretty funny, all it will really amount to is a few laughs at Brown's expense and then most people will move on. George W Bush I'm sure we can all agree on was immensely gaff prone (not including the mistakes attributed to him which were really the fault of various politicians through the ages but rehashed and made to sound like his screw ups- look up Dan Quayle quotes and you'll see many that have been attributed to Bush jnr) and he was elected twice.

john Prescott punched someone in the face and it was played out on tv over and over again. The media loves this distracting rubbish because they believe that the common man can't understand politics and it's easier to sway their opinion with sound bites and balls ups. It's just 'You've Been framed' masquerading as news and nobody is really going to take it seriously. Not for very long anyway.

If Gordon loses this election, it will definitely not be because he called some old lady a bigot.

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Postby Mandrake » Apr 28th, '10, 21:16

It's only a couple of months since he was accused of bullying staff at 10 Downing Street and all that seems to have been forgotten very quickly.

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Postby A J Irving » Apr 28th, '10, 21:32

Mandrake wrote:It's only a couple of months since he was accused of bullying staff at 10 Downing Street and all that seems to have been forgotten very quickly.


To coin a phrase: 'once you've pulled the chain, the s*** disappears.'

(my apologies for the self-censored crude language)

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Postby Arkesus » Apr 28th, '10, 23:07

What's this, a politician not saying what they are actually thinking to the public's face??? Say it isn't so!!!!!!!!???????

The thing is, does anyone actually know what she was like in order to make him say those things? She wasn't exactly a picture of politeness.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 649448.stm

cutting him off from trying to respond to her question, branching off onto different subjects.

He's a human being, and he was polite and professional when speaking "to her"

I'm really polite when I deal with rowdy spectators, but afterwards in the green room or the bar I am telling the guys "Oh my word did you hear that "Richard Skull" in the second row?"
Everybody does it.

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Postby ajaxjones » Apr 29th, '10, 00:49

pcwells wrote:No suprise either that it was Murdoch's Sky News that *ahem* accidentally *ahem* left the wireless microphone on him as he was getting into his car and recorded his every word.

Or am I just too cynical?

Pete


no, sound guys LIVE for this , they DREAM of it, they even make sure they dont ask for kit back until the last possible moment. Their job is this everytime they go out. I have been on shoots and they will run down the street to keep in range while recording hours after the real filming has stopped. They will change tapes and record through lunch breaks the lot. In the olden days, they'd boost the signal to decode the DTMF tones to find out who they were phoning. Whats remarkable is anyone remotely in TV would ever fall for this trick. I'd be firing my PA/assistant who knowingly left my mic on. Almost as if they wanted me stitched up. Then the spin doctor who allowed me to be filmed on radio, then for that stupid apology and the doorstopper press with the door being slammed behind me, Then I would fire myself

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Postby mark lewis » Apr 29th, '10, 03:30

I have come across quite a few politicians in my time and even cabinet ministers. I have been quite surprised at how dim witted many of them are. If you saw them going about their business in real life you wouldn't vote for them.

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Postby Jean » Apr 29th, '10, 03:41

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Postby pcwells » Apr 29th, '10, 08:06

Arkesus wrote:What's this, a politician not saying what they are actually thinking to the public's face??? Say it isn't so!!!!!!!!???????

The thing is, does anyone actually know what she was like in order to make him say those things? She wasn't exactly a picture of politeness.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ ... 649448.stm

cutting him off from trying to respond to her question, branching off onto different subjects.

He's a human being, and he was polite and professional when speaking "to her"

I'm really polite when I deal with rowdy spectators, but afterwards in the green room or the bar I am telling the guys "Oh my word did you hear that "Richard Skull" in the second row?"
Everybody does it.


Yup, having looked at the original recording, I got the impression that she was just a busybody letting off steam, and really basking in the moment of telling the PM how to run her country. She didn't have a coherent train of thought, she just wanted to make her voice heard. Lucky for her, she wasn't talking to Prescott - the apology would have been filmed in A&E.

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Postby greedoniz » Apr 29th, '10, 08:12

He's definitely lost my vote, What the hell was he thinking asking a woman for an opinion???

I will now go put on my shin guards

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