{"id":8270,"date":"2010-04-28T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:20:42","slug":"grovelling-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/grovelling-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Grovelling for England"},"content":{"rendered":"

And no-one does it better<\/a> than Gordon Brown:<\/p>\n

Gordon Brown issued a personal apology to a British widow and later said sorry to the entire Labor Party after branding her a bigot on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

The prime minister spent 45 minutes at Gillian Duffy’s terraced home to apologize for unguarded comments caught on a radio microphone that he had forgotten to remove.<\/p>\n

Brown was accosted by the 66-year-old after stopping to talk to the voters in the suburbs of Rochdale and was attacked on subjects including welfare payments, student tuition fees and the national debt.<\/p>\n

But it was Mrs Duffy’s complaint about immigration from Eastern Europe which prompted Mr Brown to criticise her as he got back into his car and blamed a staff member for not preventing the meeting. “She’s just a bigoted woman,” he told aides in his official car, unaware that his microphone was still live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

British politics is awash with politically correct conservative wimps<\/a>, socialist dhimmis<\/a> and money grubbing<\/a> liberal democrats. Since the British voter has been deprived of any party worth voting for, it\u2019s generous of Gordon Brown to provide the respite of comedic relief; at least the election won’t be a complete loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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