Levelling up? Gove revealed Tories real views of Northeners.

Just playing Devil’s advocate and I know he was a lot older at the time, but can we really hold him to account for these comments from the 80’s when we’re all up in arms about the Bola charges from the FA?
 
Just playing Devil’s advocate and I know he was a lot older at the time, but can we really hold him to account for these comments from the 80’s when we’re all up in arms about the Bola charges from the FA?
Ok lets play devils advocate lets just for a minute imagine the reaction if Corbyn had made comments like this from the 80's?
Bola's attitude towards the comments he made at 14 years old has changed since he grew up.
Gove, the tories & the people who vote for them still very much hold these very same views about us cruel, dirty, toothless northerners. As I have pointed out many times we as far as they are concerned are the great unwashed.
So yes we can & we should very much hold him to account
 
Just playing Devil’s advocate and I know he was a lot older at the time, but can we really hold him to account for these comments from the 80’s when we’re all up in arms about the Bola charges from the FA?
You are joking aren't you?
 
Just playing Devil’s advocate and I know he was a lot older at the time, but can we really hold him to account for these comments from the 80’s when we’re all up in arms about the Bola charges from the FA?

As you say he was a lot older, he was in his 20's whereas Bola was still a child.

In addition, unless Bola suddenly fancies running for a gay rights position or political office, then his comments are a lot less relevant than someone who holds the fate of northerners, homosexuals and children in his hands as a member of the cabinet.
 
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Gove - he's a bit of of an idiot.

Thatcher did appeal to those in the South - buy your own house watch it go up 20% a year - she built up financial services sector, supported development of Docklands, stopped Government jobs going to the North, crushed the steel industry and coal industry. However she did start Nissan and did work to get Teesside Development Corporation going, she didn't totally ignore the North.
 
Just playing Devil’s advocate and I know he was a lot older at the time, but can we really hold him to account for these comments from the 80’s when we’re all up in arms about the Bola charges from the FA?

Yes, because playing Devil's advocate would dictate a comparison to someone who was slated by the Tories and their press goons for their apparent actions and comments decades ago. Jeremy Corbyn.
 
So much media framing in our politics carries an implied or explicit message that racism is something to be entirely blamed on northerners or working class people. But those comments from Gove show how pervasive racist sentiments can be in our "elites". What a disgusting creep he is. I'd love this to be a resigning issue and that we'd never see him again in public life.
 
So much media framing in our politics carries an implied or explicit message that racism is something to be entirely blamed on northerners or working class people. But those comments from Gove show how pervasive racist sentiments can be in our "elites". What a disgusting creep he is. I'd love this to be a resigning issue and that we'd never see him again in public life.
If he beomes Leader, he's Labour's biggest hope of success.
 
Gove used to be a Trade Union official in teh NUJ and stood on picket lines in Aberdeen didn't he? - comes acrosss as someone who looks very much after number 1 and shifts with the wind when it suits him.
 
Gove used to be a Trade Union official in teh NUJ and stood on picket lines in Aberdeen didn't he? - comes acrosss as someone who looks very much after number 1 and shifts with the wind when it suits him.
Needs to ingratiate himself with his Tory "superiors".
 
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