An article by council insider and Nationalist contributor ‘Frustrated’.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three |
Gillian Duffy, then 65, questioned the prime minister as he was interviewed live on TV in Rochdale about the state of the economy and the party’s immigration policies.
During the 2010 General Election campaign the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, visited the Labour/Liberal marginal seat of Rochdale, where he had a pre-arranged meeting with life long Labour supporter, sixty-five-year-old Gillian Duffy at her home.
However, during their planned (staged) meeting, Mrs Duffy went off Labour’s preferred script by unexpectedly challenging Mr Brown on ‘sensitive’ issues that he wanted to avoid discussing during the election campaign, notably his Labour government’s record on mass immigration and crime.
Both these principal election issues were of real concern to Mrs Duffy and most other Rochdalians. At the end of their meeting, as Gordon Brown went to get into his waiting car, he told Mrs Duffy: “Very nice to meet you, very nice to meet you.” But off camera, and not realising that he still had a Sky News microphone pinned to his shirt, he was heard to tell an aide: “That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It’s just ridiculous….”
When Gordon Brown’s aide asked him what Mrs Duffy had said to make him so annoyed, Brown was heard to reply: “Ugh, everything! She’s just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean, it’s just ridiculous. I don’t know why Sue (an aide) brought her towards me.”
Most commentators, including the BBC political editor Nick Robinson, agreed that this incident was a disaster for the prime minister because it showed the gap between his public and private faces. After hearing Gordon Brown’s insulting comments about her, Mrs Duffy said: “I’m very upset. He’s an educated person. Why has he come out with words like that? He’s supposed to be leading the country and he’s calling an ordinary woman, who’s come up and asked questions that most people would ask him…. and he’s calling me a bigot… I want to know why I was called a bigot!”
I think that Gordon Brown called Mrs Duffy “a bigot” because she expressed concern about the way mass immigration was affecting Rochdale, with increased racial/religious divisions and rising crime. Indeed, at the time of the 2010 General Election, the 2001 race riots in nearby towns were fresh in the memory of Rochdalians, and they were also aware of the grooming gangs problem in Rochdale. We also know that Gordon Brown’s Labour government knew of this scandal and tried to cover it up!
The BNP leader Nick Griffin tried to reveal the ‘grooming’ gangs scandal back in 2004, but the CPS prosecuted him for ‘inciting racial hatred’. A jury acquitted Griffin in 2006, but Gordon Brown was so upset by the state’s failure to gaol and silence Griffin that Brown wanted to toughen race laws.
Moreover, in 2018, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West of England, Nazir Afzal, told BBC Radio 4 that back in 2008, Gordon Brown’s Labour government “sent a circular to all police forces in the country saying that, “as far as these young girls who are being exploited in towns and cities, we believe they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour and it is not for you police officers to get involved in.” As if a 12-year-old girl can consent to sex with adult men!
Chief Constables obeyed the Labour government’s directive not to get involved in investigating and exposing these mostly Pakistani Muslim child rape gangs, in order to protect Labour’s multiculturalism policy, community cohesion and Labour’s mushrooming Muslim block vote that they needed to win elections.
It was only when ‘The Times’ newspaper finally exposed the enormity of this ‘grooming’ gangs scandal in 2011, that it became common public knowledge that Labour-controlled councils, such as Rochdale and Rotherham, had protected these monstrous Muslim child rape gangs for decades!
Hopefully, the pending national inquiry into the grooming gangs should reveal the role of Gordon Brown in concealing this scandal and proving that when you vote Labour, you get grooming gangs!
Credits:
Main Image: YouTube. Gordon Brown’s election campaign was thrown into turmoil after he was caught on mic calling a Labour supporter a “bigoted woman”.
Lower Image: Public Domain.
The British Movement welcomes articles for possible inclusion on this site from members and supporters across the North of England. Please remember that we have to operate within the laws of this country; we will not include any content that is against the current laws of the United Kingdom. News reports should be topical and relevant to the regions covered by this website.
