The Anonymous Widower

Prudence does Stupidity

We’ve all come out of disastrous meetings and thought about saying something derogatory about the person or persons we have just met.  But we all know you might give a colleague a knowing look, that can’t be overseen, but you never say anything that might be overheard.

So when Gordon Brown accuses Gillan Duffy of being a bigot, he was being stupid.  Not for saying what he said, but for saying it when he did. After all, he had been miked up by the media, so to forget that he was, perhaps showed that he is not the sharpest knife in the NuLabor box.

Well!  Perhaps he might be, judging by the daft policies they keep trying to implement.

Bigot is perhaps a strong word to call Gillian Duffy, but then she may be typical of many who resent the number of East Europeans who have come to the UK in recent years.

But has it ever been thus?

I am descended from Jews on my father’s side and Huguenots on my mother’s.  We absorbed a very large six figure number of Poles after the Second World War and countless immigrants from the Commonwealth since.

Some come, some go home, some settle and some move on.

Remember too, that some of the largest inflow in recent years to the UK have been from countries like France and Spain. 

Do we complain about them?

April 30, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | News | Gordon Brown, Immigration, NuLabor, Politics