No Prime Minister

Well the election coverage certainly livened up today when Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Labour Party) met pensioner Gillian Duffy on a walkabout in Rochdale.

After she had discussed her issues of concern with him, everyone thought the encounter had gone OK. Yet the Prime Minister certainly let his guard slip when he got into his car to go to his next venue. A microphone, that was still live, picked up his remarks he was making to one of his aides. During this 'unofficial' private chat in the back of the car, he described Mrs Duffy as a 'bigoted' woman, and said the meeting was a 'nightmare'.

The political mayhem his comments caused haunted him when he went on a BBC radio interview when the recording was played back to him. He stuck his head in his hands, realising the enormity of what he had said, and within a few hours, he arrived at the home of Gillian Duffy and spent 40 minutes with her, during which he 'apologised profusely' for his off-the-cuff remarks.

In my opinion he was just unlucky that he was caught out, because no doubt David Cameron and Nick Clegg have made similar remarks, but without them being recorded. However, it seems to back up the rumours that Mr Brown can be arrogant and domineering, as he was blaming one of his aides for making him have the encounter with Gillian. He later apologised to his aides too who he blamed, but they were his words, spoken by him - not by anyone else.

I have been a Labour man since I have been 18-years-old, that is over 26 years now (at the time of writing this) and this has just made me vote Liberal Democrat in my constituency, and three reasons why:

1. Because of Gordon Brown's comments about what he thinks truly about the general public;

2. Because the Labour candidate for my constituency doesn't even live locally, just the same as the last MP, Geoff Hoon, and;

3. The Liberal Democrat candidate comes from my area locally and has been a councillor too.

Well done Mr Brown, I shall certainly be saying with confidence on 6th May: 'No Prime Minister'!