Has Gordon committed the ultimate sin ?

[Papaumau]

Nothing smacks of hypocricy more than saying one thing in public and being caught saying exactly the opposite in private.

Brown's gaff of calling the Labour supporter "that bigotted woman" in his limousine while still having a Sky News personal mike attached to his jacket and sending his every word to the world must be recorded as the worst political gaff in history only a week before a general election.

I have to ask...does anybody think that this gaff might be the final nail in the Labour coffin or will it just be a one day wonder ?

[Hugh]

I believe final nail had already gone in long before this gaff. I think if I was in his shoes she would have got right up my nose the way she asked questions, before he had chance to answer the last one. I think we should all for give and for get she was a right pain.

[Papaumau]

Hi Hugh....

Did you notice that when Brown was talking to his aide he was already blaming his other Aid "Sue" for setting him up with this woman. He called the meeting a "disaster" even before he made that ultimate gaff. ( That'll be her sacked I bet ).

I guess that when politicans are out and about "meeting the people" they get their aides to pick neutral or even pro people to talk to while on the air. It seems as if this plan went well astray this time.

Sadly our Gordon is not good in situations like this and I don't know why he does it at all.

[cheddar-caveman]

I think this is what a lot of these people really think about us. We put them in place for one reason only - to give them a lavish lifestyle while only having to work part time actually doing the job they were elected for - well that's what they seem to think anyway it would seem!

I REALLY want to see the whole election system changed so that our MPs are elected for a term in office, not for life!

[Papaumau]

I think this is what a lot of these people really think about us. We put them in place for one reason only - to give them a lavish lifestyle while only having to work part time actually doing the job they were elected for - well that's what they seem to think anyway it would seem!

I REALLY want to see the whole election system changed so that our MPs are elected for a term in office, not for life!

Yes, I have often said that I would love to be a fly on the wall of the secret places where the politicians actually speak the truth !

I don't tar them all with the same brush as I am sure that some of them are there to serve us.  I just think that the gravy-train eventually gets to most of them and they cannot help supping all that luverly gravy while they get the chance.

I agree about the fixed term for MPs but that would be terribly expensive to do and as soon as such people could not see themselves getting a longish term out of being an MP they would go and do something else. Then we would just be left with the numpties.

[cheddar-caveman]

I think I'd rather have an honest numpty that most of the current breed. Such a dilema as to what to do this election.

Brown? NO WAY. He's put the country into its current mess first as chancelloe and now as PM.

Cameron - OK but I don't like the fact that he supports animal cruelty and I don't want to vote for Heathcoat Amory

Clegg - they'll tax us more than either of the other parties!

All other votes - a waste of a vote as none of the others can even get one seat let alone a majority!

[Papaumau]

They have all got pros and cons for us to consider and because of this I think that the two mobs that have had it good for the past thirty or more years should now get the boot and the Liberal Democrats should at last get a chance to show us what they can do.

None of them will be perfect but at least we KNOW what is wrong with the big two don't we ?

"More of the same" ?....Not a choice as far as I can see !