Gordon Brown and "that woman"
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Today's Mail on Sunday features a wonderful interview with Gillian Duffy, the lifelong Labour voter dismissed as a "bigoted woman" by Gordon Brown on Wednesday. It's an absolute classic because it confirms not that - for all his blustering - Brown has not a shred of empathy with ordinary working class voters, the very people he claims to represent.
Full interview HERE. I defy you not to laugh or be moved by what Gillian Duffy has to say.
PS. The paper reports that she will donate part of the fee for this interview to her grandson’s school football team, which she says recently became the first Rochdale team to make it to the finals of the National English Schools Cup. They play at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium next month and she couldn’t be more proud. She’ll give money to her local church too, she says. ‘The rest is all for my grandchildren really,’ she adds. ‘I give them everything.’
See also: Is Gillian Duffy the sweetest old lady in England?
Reader Comments (7)
God moves in mysterious ways.
In this case saving us all from another ruinous five year plan from Zanu PF Labour.
Or is it a case of even the gods themselves are subject to the whims of the fates ?
Gordon Browns mistake was hoping that this episode would just go away and that his goons could keep people like Mrs Duffy off the airwaves.
He just showed himself up for his idealised image of working class communities rather than deal with, and be honest and truthful about working people's worries and fears about the toxic issue of immigration and its myriad of discontents.
I'm sure a certain party is laughing all the way to polls.
Well done Gordon.
I think this lady may just have saved her Country. If Cameron gets in he should get her nominated for the New Year's Honours list.
The ultimate irony: Labour brought down - inadvertently - by one of its core voters who have been deliberately discarded during its government.
Perhaps, "to be Duffied" will enter our vocubulary.
"Brown has not a shred of empathy with ordinary working class voters."
In which case, he's probably in the right party (these days).........................
‘Then he asked, “Do you ever come down to London?” And said, “If you ever come down you must come to No10 and meet me and Sarah.”
‘Well, I just looked at him. I didn’t like to say it, but all I could think was, “I don’t think you’ll be there.”’
That was my favourite bit, so funny and at ther same time insightful. I saw it last night and edited it to fit 140 characters and put it on twitter.
A quote from yesterday's paper..
When Mrs Duffy asked Gordon 'where are all these immigrants flocking from'
Gordy said he thought Mrs Duffy said 'where are all these immigrants f..king from'.
You couldnt make it up.
But Gordy could!