Bigotgate and the Mail on Sunday

[wellquickwoody]

According to GMTV this morning Mrs Duffy/Bigot has signed an exclusive with the Mail on Sunday to tell them what was said when Gormless Brown returned to her house to apologise. She is reportedly being paid between fifty and one hundred thousand pounds for her version of events.

Whether this is morally right or wrong, Labour must be shitting themselves.

 

[beorhthelm]

i think she should have left it. i think they (the papers) should have left it. i really dont think its news worthy and i wouldn't believe what they attribute to her anyway.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

well, pays her pension for the rest of her life.

It was always going to happen

 

[The Large One]

If this is true, I suspect Gordon has just got his 'Get Out of Jail [sic] Free' card handed to him.

 

[desprateseagull]

everyone watching news over the past couple of days must have already seen / eard what that half blind tawt said..

what's more to add? i do hope the MoS bods got the meeting taped, to back up any claims/ counterclaims by El Gordo..

 

[Easy 10]

Fair play to her. I'd have done the same.
Although my story would involve peephole bras, squashed battenberg cakes and Gordon on all fours.

 

[Harty]

If this is true, I suspect Gordon has just got his 'Get Out of Jail [sic] Free' card handed to him.

Explain please TLO

Gordo looks dead in the water IMHO

 

[The Wizard]

Why does everyone add 'gate' to stuff?

 

[simmo]

It will pay for her grandchildren's university education!

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Good for her. Anyone that says they wouldn't do the same is lying. It's not like she even went out her way to create the story herself

 

[simmo]

Good for her. Anyone that says they wouldn't do the same is lying. It's not like she even went out her way to create the story herself

Absolutely, make hay while the sun shines. This weekend she will be the big story, next weekend after the election is over she will all be forgotten about (well not by Gordon Brown )

 

[Shanker45]

I would say to her the only note of caution is that by selling an exclusive the other tabloids will be sniffing around for a story.
I hope her family are all whiter than white ( no immigration joke intended) as they will be looking a story.

 

[The Large One]

Explain please TLO

Gordo looks dead in the water IMHO

One - at a time, four days after the event, when most of the debate has moved on from this discourse (not the debate about immigration, the debate about the comment itself), the Mail wants to keep it going and going.

Two - it's the Mail, not exactly noted for its sense of balance or prudence in its headlines, reporting or stories. Will Brown be allowed a right of reply?

But, no matter what this woman tells the paper - and face it, she is being offered a ton of cash (and I can't help feeling she is going to be sorely manipulated by the Mail) rather than her telling it because it's a story she feels that NEEDS to be told - the Mail will put its own spin on it to such an extent that many people will see it for what it is; a 'Give Gordon a Kicking' time. Whoop-de-doo - like, you wouldn't expect that from the Mail, would you?

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the country - floating voters particularly - want to know about national policies, what a new government would bring, how much it's going to cost us etc, not a grumpy Scotsman's - albeit ill-advised - off-hand remark. Just now and then, while the majority of the country has moved on from this, that sort of thing does risk backfiring. For instance, the Tory press tried a crude stunt to go big on Nick Clegg's finances, and look what happened. Nada.

Now if this 'interview' was in the Observer or even the Sunday Times, I think that might be different, and Gordon ought to be shitting himself then.

 

[The Spanish]

Why does everyone add 'gate' to stuff?

I hate it even worse than "-aholic." there is no such thing as chocohol you stupid cnts.

 

[The Large One]

I hate it even worse than "-aholic." there is no such thing as chocohol you stupid cnts.

But there is something called cuntlics.

Probably.

 

[ROSM]

As Stephen Fry says;

'The definition of Countryside is when you murder Piers Morgan'

It works better on the radio!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

One - at a time, four days after the event, when most of the debate has moved on from this discourse (not the debate about immigration, the debate about the comment itself), the Mail wants to keep it going and going.

Two - it's the Mail, not exactly noted for its sense of balance or prudence in its headlines, reporting or stories. Will Brown be allowed a right of reply?

But, no matter what this woman tells the paper - and face it, she is being offered a ton of cash (and I can't help feeling she is going to be sorely manipulated by the Mail) rather than her telling it because it's a story she feels that NEEDS to be told - the Mail will put its own spin on it to such an extent that many people will see it for what it is; a 'Give Gordon a Kicking' time. Whoop-de-doo - like, you wouldn't expect that from the Mail, would you?

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the country - floating voters particularly - want to know about national policies, what a new government would bring, how much it's going to cost us etc, not a grumpy Scotsman's - albeit ill-advised - off-hand remark. Just now and then, while the majority of the country has moved on from this, that sort of thing does risk backfiring. For instance, the Tory press tried a crude stunt to go big on Nick Clegg's finances, and look what happened. Nada.

Now if this 'interview' was in the Observer or even the Sunday Times, I think that might be different, and Gordon ought to be shitting himself then.

I take the Daily Mail every day.

 

[ROSM]

I take in what the Daily Mail writes every day.

I've corrected it for you

 

[The Wizard]

I take the Daily Mail every day.

Now that really surprises me..

 

[El Presidente]

Although my story would involve peephole bras, squashed battenberg cakes and Gordon on all fours.

Do you have to broadcast EVERYTHING we do in private together?