Tough question and Brown fails

[Devrim]

You can't say anything about the immigrants because you're saying that you're... all these Eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?


A million people come from Europe but a million people, British people, have gone into Europe. You do know that there's a lot of British people staying in Europe as well?

Don't you really get tired of all the political avoidance of questions. Wouldn't it just liven up the elections if there was a politician with a bit of honesty and straight forwardness? It might not do anything for the working class, but at least it might liven it up a bit.

So for the vote, how should Brown have replied:

a) Nothing and then gone and winged to his aides in his car.
b) Quite probably from Eastern Europe. That is after all where Eastern Europeans tend to come from.
c) Well they may be foreign but like our North Korean brothers they too have the right to a workers bomb.(The Spart option)
d) Well we are kicking immigrants out, faster than the BNP can fantasise about, but vote Labour (and build a fighting socialist alternative)( SWP non option=support for the party of British imperialism (whilst building a fighting socialist alternative).

[Il Medico]

"Quite probably from Eastern Europe. That is after all where Eastern Europeans tend to come from." Because that is what I would say.

[Glenn Beck]

Really most problems can be solved with a worker's bomb

[revolution inaction]

i'd say "Quite probably from Eastern Europe. That is after all where Eastern Europeans tend to come from" or something like that

but

brown should have said "Well we are kicking immigrants out, faster than the BNP can fantasise about, but vote Labour" cause that way he would have told the truth at least once in the campain

[Comrade B]

At least he called the woman a bigot later... even though he is desperately pretending that she isn't one now

[Sir Comradical]

What's a "workers bomb" ?

[JazzRemington]

Brown's counter-argument was vague. He could have meant something like since British are going into Europe (Western and Eastern), it may be at some of the people coming from Eastern Europe were of at least British decent.

If he said "from Eastern Europe", then they probably would have demanded a more specific answer. But regardless, I think to many western racists the term "Eastern European" is equatable to "dirty and backward" or the like (especially with Nazis). So the bigot could have just responded with "from a dirty and backwards country", or the like.

Either way, it was probably a loaded question and the instant he answered it, Brown was doomed regardless.

[Chambered Word]

It was a toss-up between the 'quite possibly from...' and the SWP option, but I went with the former.

[Devrim]

What's a "workers bomb" ?

It is a reference to a Trotskyist group that fanatically supports North Korea. They had a chant on demonstrations that refereed to 'one bomb, the workers bomb'.

Devrim

[Sir Comradical]

It is a reference to a Trotskyist group that fanatically supports North Korea. They had a chant on demonstrations that refereed to 'one bomb, the workers bomb'.

Devrim

What on earth does that even mean?

[Dimentio]

What on earth does that even mean?

North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.