One in the eye for brown - from Clarkson

[SantaClaus]

141 comments on the Evening Standard website and most of them saying what a twat Gordon Brown is.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...#StartComments

I love it!

[Cyberman]

Well, that particular lot of Tories earned it!

... and they left a growing economy in 1997. So what do the current lot of Labour deserve for the biggest recession in living memory ?
You left-winge..ers deserve this HMG !!

[Cyberman]

Obviously the thing that Carol Thatcher did wrong was to make a quiet comment in private.
If she had issued her comments loudly in public to an audience and directly at a black person to be 'edgy' and to cause outrage, followed by a partial apology, she would still have a job with the BBC.

[threaded]

It's just made the Danish national news.

[Beefy198]

Obviously the thing that Carol Thatcher did wrong was to make a quiet comment in private.
If she had issued her comments loudly in public to an audience and directly at a black person to be 'edgy' and to cause outrage, followed by a partial apology, she would still have a job with the BBC.

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

I think there is a big difference between casting such an opinion over someone to calling someone a golliwog.

[Doggy Styles]

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

I heard this morning that he clarified his apology in similar fashion to what you suggest!

I think there is a big difference between casting such an opinion over someone to calling someone a golliwog.

Maybe, but the allegation isn't that she called someone a golliwog, it's that she said someone looked like a golliwog. I've seen people that look like all kinds of things. And she said it in private, not on air.

[DimPrawn]

Winky Mc****nut

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/c...-200902061562/

[NotAllThere]

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

His actual apology wasn't far off that:

In the heat of the moment I made a remark about the Prime Minister's personal appearance for which, upon reflection, I apologise.

He's only apologised for the one-eyed bit.

[ratewhore]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/c...-200902061562/

kuatb

http://forums.contractoruk.com/765290-post25.html

[Doggy Styles]

Someone once said that I looked like a lizard.

Now you come to mention it...