trousers

Best ask Brown why he's "profusely" apologising about something that is defendable I guess....

Defending the undefendable? Have I stumbled across a Pompey forum....?;-)

Of course, the predictablity of all this is that we'll get non-Labour people saying this is a major gaffe, we'll get labour people saying it's a minor lapse but the simple bottom line is it will cost him votes. That's what happens in politics.

Damn....I was just about to post along the lines of: "Next we'll have Mandy on camera spinning that 'It shows that Gordon is human' " and then up he pops on Sky News saying those very words. Beat me to it Mandy!

Suffice to say, if this had been Cameron I'm sure Mandy and co would be wetting themselves with delight. The biggest damage here is not what he said ABOUT the 'batty old labour supporting lady' but how his instinct was to slag off his advisors for letting him meet her in the first place. Like him or not, whenever cameron has been confronted with people dlagging off his policies over the last couple of weeks he seems to relish the challenge and debate whereas Brown seems I'll at ease. Just an observation

Labour supporters in patronising retorts shocker....

I don't think the "bigot" remark is the most damaging element here....it's the fact that his first reaction was to slate his advisors for letting him meet a non-scripted member of the public in the first place

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid69900095001?bctid=81638303001

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to in Rochdale as a "bigoted woman". The 65-year-old woman had challenged Mr Brown on a number of issues including immigration, crime and the economy during the exchange. As he got into his car, he was still wearing a broadcast microphone and was heard to say "that was a disaster". It comes after Labour vowed for him to meet more ordinary voters. The comments were made as he got into his car after speaking to Gillian Duffy, not realising that he had a Sky News microphone pinned to his shirt. He told an aide: "That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous..." Asked what she had said, he replied: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman." Mrs Duffy, a widow, said: "I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but if that's what he said I'm very upset. I'm very annoyed." Immediately after the exchange she had said she would vote Labour. But after being told about his comments she said she would not. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8649012.stm

Whoops....Brown's "Kinnock" moment I venture....

Mr Sale starting to put the boot in on a slightly more regular basis..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1269341/Charles-Sale-Your-important-.html "The catalogue of mismanagement at crisis club Portsmouth even includes the letter sent to creditors after the administrators, UHY Hacker Young, revealed the full details of the astonishing £120million-plus debt. Those owed money by the relegated Premier League club were informed in a covering note with the 70-page document of the upcoming creditors’ meeting on May 6 and told to ring the accountancy firm’s London office assistant manager, Maria Ensabella, on her direct line if they had any immediate questions. Farcically, when creditors rang the number, it was not recognised"

Sure? :confused:

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Hmmm.....Isn't that what we're currently accusing the Pompey fans of doing the last two years....?

Totally agree. Which is why the OP wasn't advocating such a thing....

Patrick

Cheese

The thing that troubles me most is that you were in London and didn't give me a shout for a lunchtime beer... ;-)

Or.... Mr Pompey administrator leaving his London office to discuss Southampton's proposals to takeover Pompey with a view to creating a new south coast team in the Championship next season....promotion by stealth....get in! Or....

Or maybe it's a rep from a London brewery to discuss the new beer contract at SMS, given the existing supplier contract expires in the summer. Or.....

Not Kevin Keegan, surely? (stop it Trousers. Ridiculous conspiracy theories are very 2007 you know)