I would like to begin this inaugural post with admitting something. Sometimes I judge people too harshly and am more than happy to share these judgements with my friends, colleagues, family members and generally whoever is around at the time.
Hi, by the way. My name's Andrew and welcome to my new blog...
If you haven't figured out what I was talking about up there yet, then you are probably from the wrong country. Oh no wait, that's something a bigot might say. What I mean is, something happened in Britain this week with our departing Prime Minister that everyone here knows about. Because nobody is probably reading this blog, let alone anyone outside of this country, I shan't go into details. That would be over the top. What I shall say is this. I do not care that Gordon Brown said that, in fact, his devastated reaction to the news that everyone heard him only earned him more sympathy from me. Saying that, I am definitely not going to be voting for him. But as that has nothing to do with this incident, I will save it for another time.
Something not many people have publicly discussed regarding this is incident is the question of 'Was Gillian Duffy a bigot?' I find this very confusing, because if she was a bigot, then surely we cannot blame Mr. Brown for saying such a thing. It is doubtful that I am going to be the subject of public anger and disillusionment if I were to say that Heinrich Himmler, Nick Griffin or my Grandfather were bigots. The only problem people might have with that is that I am perhaps being too kind. It would probably be more fitting to call them all racists. Now I'm not saying that Ms. Duffy falls into the same grouping as those people, but she does have something in common with one of them, she is getting on a bit (like my Grandfather, surprisingly), and like a good proportion of people who are stretching out their years, she might be prone to a little bigotry every now and again. Of course, this generalisation on my part might now qualify me as a bigot. In which case, go ahead and tell people. Also I just said she was old, so that's offensive too.
Lets not forget that she did say that Eastern Europeans were turning her estate into a "third world country". Now I don't know whether that is bigoted or just stupid, I'm pretty sure there aren't any third world countries in the East of Europe, but on the other hand, I haven't got much of a clue what she meant by that. All I know is that it certainly wasn't designed as a compliment to the people I heartily welcome into the country.What on earth was Sue playing at anyway? This is really her fault, after all. Clearly it is her job to find people for Mr. Brown to talk to that make him look good enough to persuade everyone that he is not a total failure who didn't deserve to be in power in the first place. So why did she choose someone that could have been so disastrous for their campaign? Have some foresight Sue. Idiot.
Really though, this whole thing doesn't matter, we all make mistakes like that and say things that aren't that nice about people behind their back. The good thing is that most of us aren't taped while we are doing it. Everyone seems to overlooking somebody else's gaffe which was much worse. Nick Griffin said that he couldn't tell if someone he was talking to on the radio was British because he couldn't see what he looked like. Now there's a bigot. Maybe we should leave Gordon alone and attack this guy more.
In my opinion, the worst people in this whole thing were the Sky reporters who chased after the poor, bigoted Ms. Duffy shouting "He called you a bigot! Did you hear? He called you a bigot! You're a bigot! Turn around! Act disgusted! Tell everyone to vote Conservative!"
If we are going to take anything from this, it should be that we can be sure that Labour, and Gordon, don't like bigots. This is only a good thing, even if a couple of people get mislabelled along the way. And of course, vote for the Liberal Democrats.
Valediction!
Andrew, you bigot.
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