How a granny exploded politicians' censorship of any election debate on mass immigration... and was demonised by Brown Lib Dems weakness on crime will hit ratings Hammersmith and Shepherds' Bush: Immigration tops the bill Bangladeshi candidates battle for east London seat Gordon's bigot gaffe could seal poll outcome for Labour BROWN DISPLAYS HIS UTTER CONTEMPT FOR ELECTORATE DEPORTEES TURN TO VIOLENCE If this woman's a bigot then I'm proud to be one too £8M SCANDAL OF THE ILLEGAL STOO VIOLENT TO DEPORT She was magnificent, she was eloquent. And she spoke, I suspect, for millions BNP is 'Labour offshoot' Election 2010: Profile of Rochdale gran branded a bigot by PM Gordon Brown eats humble pie with Gillian Duffy in Rochdale Labours contempt for the white working class Comment: The hypocrisy of the attack on Brown Robin Page: My manifesto for the countryside Rochdale under pressure: How the Home Office was warned Gillan Duffy's town is at risk of race riots 'Bigot' jibe exposes disconnect between politicians and voters UK punters bet against Labour after "bigot" gaffe Population reaches 31-year highA selection of recent media reports
It was the day that the great unspoken issue of the election - immigration - exploded in Gordon Brown's face.
Daily Mail (29-Apr-2010)
The Liberal Democrats weakness on crime and security issues will hit their poll ratings in the final week of the campaign, Home Secretary Alan Johnson claimed last...
Wales Online (29-Apr-2010)
By Kaye...
Politics.co.uk (29-Apr-2010)
By Andy Dangerfield BBC News, London Rushanara Ali, pictured with Gordon Brown, wants more Asian women MPs Many factors are uncertain when it comes to trying to predict the outcome of the general...
BBC London (29-Apr-2010)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's chance encounter with a 65-year-old widow, who he called a 'bigoted woman', could seal the outcome of the general elections for Labour as 'the party has lost not just hers, but potentially thousands of others who will listen to what she said'.
Irish Sun (29-Apr-2010)
GORDON Brown has spent much of this election campaign whining about politics being turned into a beauty contest and calling for more emphasis to be placed on...
Daily Express (29-Apr-2010)
IT IS a sound principle of public administration that bad behaviour should be penalised, not simply because that is the correct ethical response but also because that way the incentives for others to behave well are...
Daily Express (29-Apr-2010)
What happened yesterday between Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown in Rochdale does not merely mark a turning point in the General Election campaign. Their encounter, and what followed, should be remembered as a kind of watershed in the relationship between those who govern us and the...
Mail Online (29-Apr-2010)
FAILED asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who turn violent to avoid being kicked out of Britain are costing the taxpayer £8million a year, it emerged...
Sunday Express (29-Apr-2010)
Well, grunted Gordon Brown, 'that was a disaster'. He never spoke truer word. His ungallant slur on Gillian Duffy was indeed a misfortune. Possibly a...
Mail Online (29-Apr-2010)
By Alex...
Politics.co.uk (29-Apr-2010)
Grandmother Gillian Duffy isn't the sort of person who hides her political allegiances. The lifelong Labour supporter who told Gordon Brown her father sang the traditional socialist Red-Flag song when he was a teenager - has displayed posters in her window supporting the party for years and she is known...
Manchester Evening News (28-Apr-2010)
One minute you are popping round the corner for a loaf of white sliced, and the next you are changing the course of British politics. Yes, it was a funny old day for Gillian Duffy. Not funny at all for Gordon Brown, of...
Telegraph.co.uk (28-Apr-2010)
I suppose it is the perfect expression of how and why the Labour Party has lost the white working class vote in the last fifteen years; it has only contempt for...
The Spectator (28-Apr-2010)
Brown's 'bigot' gaffe may be unpleasant, but those attacking him should look in the...
Politics.co.uk (28-Apr-2010)
Fresh policies are needed to rectify 13 years of rural misrule from London, says Robin...
Telegraph.co.uk (28-Apr-2010)
When grandmother Gillian Duffy suggested immigration was a problem in Rochdale, she was swiftly dismissed as a 'bigot' by Gordon Brown. But the Prime Minister was betraying not only his real feelings about the worries of millions of Britons, but also his ignorance of what has been going on in the...
Mail Online (28-Apr-2010)
Labour's political elite has failed to explain social change to ordinary...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (28-Apr-2010)
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's punters have been betting against Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party securing a majority win in next week's election after he called a woman voter a "bigot" during a campaign walkabout in northern England on...
Reuters UK (28-Apr-2010)
Scotland's population is at its highest level for 31 years at almost 5.2 million people, figures have...
East Lothian News (28-Apr-2010)
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