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Rochdale under pressure: How the Home Office was warned Gillan Duffy's town is at risk of race riots Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1269581/Warning-Gillan-Duffys-home-town-Rochdale-risk-race-riots.html#ixzz0mQIgWT4z

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Reading the full transcript it all becomes crystal clear - it was all Sue's fault. Brown was also right about the press going with this story. Gordon Brown: That was a disaster...should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Aide: I don't know, I didn't see her. Gordon Brown: Sue's I think. Just ridiculous. Aide: Not sure that they'll go with that one. Gordon Brown: They will go with that one. Aide: What did she say? Mr Brown: Everything, she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

Gordon goes back to grovel in person to life-long Labour grandmother he called a 'bigot' for complaining about immigration Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1269486/Election-2010-Gordon-Browns-bigoted-woman-insult-Gillian-Duffy.html#ixzz0mQCuIvvb

Yes that dip that's all now gone away.

Why is there a big dip in the Labour flow chart?:confused:

Watch the Polls... Tonight we should have YouGov in the Sun, the regular ComRes for ITV and the Independent, and a new marginals poll. Bear in mind that all the fieldwork for ComRes, and the vast majority of the fieldwork for YouGov, will have been conducted prior to Gordon Brown’s unfortunate encounter with Mrs Duffy. So to see how bigotgate has affected Labour the acid tests will come in polls released after tonights.

Gillians views are widely held views.

When mandelson described someone as a c**t, the next day he said that he'd been misheard and actually called them a chump. If only he'd got his head in gear he could have told brown to say he hadn't called her a bigoted woman but a bighearted woman.

It'll all be forgotton about in a couple of weeks. Oh.

He did though, publicly he said she was good woman, in his car he said she was a bigot. So which is Clowns true opinion?

I think the other parties will tread carefully on this issue. It's not as if they need to fuel it and it could be dodgy to jump on the bandwagon. Cameron mentioned cleggs IKEA buscuit tin and kitchen in the last debate but I think he'll leave this one alone, or maybe just laugh it off it's brought up which will annoy clown just as much.

I think he needs to book in here: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/personality-disorders/ds00562

Profile of Gillian Duffy, the voter PM called 'bigoted' Gillian Duffy, the voter Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a "bigoted woman", says she and her family have been lifelong Labour supporters. The 65-year-old is a widow whose husband died of cancer four years ago. She worked for Rochdale council for 30 years, describing herself as working with children and disabled children. Mrs Duffy, a pensioner from Rochdale, who has a daughter and two grandchildren, said she was an "ordinary woman". Among the topics she confronted Mr Brown about was immigration, complaining about the number of people from Eastern Europe now living in the UK. It was this question the prime minister later admitted in an interview on BBC Radio 2 he thought was "annoying". Mrs Duffy also complained about people on benefits. "There are too many who aren't vulnerable and they can claim, and people who are vulnerable can't get claims - can't get it," she said. Mrs Duffy told the prime minister her father had even sung the traditional socialist song "The Red Flag" when he was a teenager. Before adding that "now I'm absolutely ashamed of saying I'm Labour". She also told the prime minister the three main things "I had drummed in when I was a child was education, health service and looking after people who are vulnerable". Speaking about her two grandchildren, aged 12 and 10, she said she was concerned about how they would be able to afford to go to university when they are older. During their conversation, Mr Brown told Mrs Duffy "you're a very good woman, you've served your community all your life". This was at odds with his comments, caught on microphone in the car after their meeting, where he described her as "bigoted". Mr Brown subsequently visited Mrs Duffy at her home in Rochdale to apologise in person. Upon leaving after 45 minuets, he told waiting reporters: "I have given her my sincere apologies." Mrs Duffy herself has yet to comment following the visit.

They were saying on SKY that with it being a radio interview he didn't realise he was being filmed.

And to think it was a SKY news mic that exposed bigotgate. I bet you're gutted.

What is the news channel of the Guardian reader?

I'm sure this story will be covered in the "in other news" section.

BTF have you seen the interviews SKY have conducted with people in the streets in Rochdale yet? I'll give you a clue all but one they interviewed isn't a core Labour voter anymore. Come May 7th it'll be Liberal. Let's just hope the anti Brown feeling spreads to other marginals.

The American stations covered bigotgate live in the US. I bet the Tories are chuffed Clown gave them such a good day to bury bad news.

Because Clown has just given the Liberals and Tories an almighty boost in the marginals.

I prefer Bigotgate.

lol Glad to see you're not bitter.