David Cameron has been caught on a microphone complaining that people in Yorkshire 'hate everyone else' and each other.
The Prime Minister was in Leeds to hail a deal to devolve powers to the regions.
But while rehearsing how to deal with questions about the policy, he was recorded complaining about the level of animosity between different parts of the county.
He said, 'We just thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else.'
In the gaffe, he added: 'We didn't realise they hated each other so much.'
Spoken like a true Etonian, Dave.
-- Edited by Andy Monium on Saturday 12th of September 2015 06:42:46 AM
-- Edited by Andy Monium on Saturday 12th of September 2015 06:46:50 AM
Yorkshire folk have tough enough skin and can take a joke at their expense as long as Dave doesn't mind being referred to as that southern, shandy drinking, soft as ****e, pappy ****.
I am disgusted at his comments and have sent him 10 pages from Millersmad so he can see how true Yorkshiremen treat each other with the utmost respect.
And of course , there is nothing but harmony and back slapping in the halls of power in eton and Westminster.
We Yorkshire folk are quite looked down on by the rest of the country but I think that's something to be celebrated. I've personally never been anywhere quite as profoundly friendly.
Cameron shouldn't have lasted five minutes as a politician either Heman. His background is that he is a PR man, a spin doctor. The fact that those skills have taken him to the top in British politics says everything we need to know about the state we are in politically. There is a certain irony in the fact that he made such a gaffe as controlling what he puts out into the public domain is all he is about. The reason that Corbyn is Labour's new leader and that Farage appeals to some - loathsome though I personally think he is - is that there is a perception that they at least say it as they see it. Amen to that.
Cameron shouldn't have lasted five minutes as a politician either Heman. His background is that he is a PR man, a spin doctor. The fact that those skills have taken him to the top in British politics says everything we need to know about the state we are in politically. There is a certain irony in the fact that he made such a gaffe as controlling what he puts out into the public domain is all he is about. The reason that Corbyn is Labour's new leader and that Farage appeals to some - loathsome though I personally think he is - is that there is a perception that they at least say it as they see it. Amen to that.
Cameron shouldn't have lasted five minutes as a politician either Heman. His background is that he is a PR man, a spin doctor. The fact that those skills have taken him to the top in British politics says everything we need to know about the state we are in politically. There is a certain irony in the fact that he made such a gaffe as controlling what he puts out into the public domain is all he is about. The reason that Corbyn is Labour's new leader and that Farage appeals to some - loathsome though I personally think he is - is that there is a perception that they at least say it as they see it. Amen to that.
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Substitute "gay", "black" or "Muslim" or "women" for Yorkshire and the sh*t would really have hit the fan. It's the fault of the electorate though: for some reason the English love a toff, whether as PM or lording it over them a la Stephen Fry. If you didn't go to a top public school in this country then don't frigging bother.
