The Gaffe

Ooh what excitement for the media! Yesterday there were in a state bordering on hysteria.

One of the most interesting things about this general election is the inability of the media to suss what is going on. The commentators and the political parties are feasting at one table, whilst the voters are eating at quite another. It was like that with the financial crash. All the economists missed what was coming . If people saw the dangers, they were ordinary people.

This election is different. The people have been let down by the banks and the politicians in equal measure. The media too is no longer trusted. Many of them are overpaid. No longer will the voters do what the Sun tells them. There is a very different mood out there. I have not managed to find anybody, including among known Brown haters, who have thought anything of this gaffe, other than that it was quite funny. Everyone says ‘we all say things out of earshot ….’  

People do not care what Brown thinks of Mrs Duffy or what Mrs Duffy thinks of Brown. They both mean well in their own way. Some are beginning to discover that these mikes are faded remotely. Somebody forgot to fade Gordon’s. Oh? Who provided the mike? Sky, a Murdoch Company. Hmmmm.

Tonight’s debate should be fun.