O Come On! It was just a slip of a tounge due to Brown's high level of stress! Mind you, he is running a huge country with thousands of issues while leading his party in the upcoming general elections! This is not something any tom dick and harry can do!
The lifelong Labour supporter branded a "bigot" by Gordon Brown has said she was more offended at being called "that woman".
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Gillian Duffy revealed she would not be voting for any party, despite accepting the Prime Minister's apology after his unguarded remark in Rochdale.
The pensioner also said she had snubbed his invitation to shake hands in front of the cameras.
The sixty-five year old said: "It wasn't the bigot, it was that he said 'that woman'. I thought 'what does he mean, that woman?'... It's not nice, it's not nice at all."
Mr Brown's campaign tour was thrown into a tailspin last Wednesday after he was forced to offer profuse apologies to the widow.
After an apparently good-natured conversation, Mr Brown then left in his car, forgetting his microphone was still live, and made the remarks to his director of strategic communications.
"That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's Sue I think. It's just ridiculous," he told Justin Forsyth.
Asked what she had said, Mr Brown added: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."
His decision to apologise personally to Mrs Duffy in a telephone call - and then follow it up with a personal visit to her home, 12 miles away from his Manchester hotel - demonstrated the extent to which it had shaken the Labour campaign.
Speaking out for the first time since Mr Brown's apology, Mrs Duffy added: "He wanted me to go outside with him and shake his hands for the camera but I said no. I didn't want that fuss."
Mrs Duffy said she was "shocked" by the episode and felt more "sad" than "angry" about what happened
The lifelong Labour supporter branded a "bigot" by Gordon Brown has said she was more offended at being called "that woman".
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Gillian Duffy revealed she would not be voting for any party, despite accepting the Prime Minister's apology after his unguarded remark in Rochdale.
The pensioner also said she had snubbed his invitation to shake hands in front of the cameras.
The sixty-five year old said: "It wasn't the bigot, it was that he said 'that woman'. I thought 'what does he mean, that woman?'... It's not nice, it's not nice at all."
Mr Brown's campaign tour was thrown into a tailspin last Wednesday after he was forced to offer profuse apologies to the widow.
After an apparently good-natured conversation, Mr Brown then left in his car, forgetting his microphone was still live, and made the remarks to his director of strategic communications.
"That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's Sue I think. It's just ridiculous," he told Justin Forsyth.
Asked what she had said, Mr Brown added: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."
His decision to apologise personally to Mrs Duffy in a telephone call - and then follow it up with a personal visit to her home, 12 miles away from his Manchester hotel - demonstrated the extent to which it had shaken the Labour campaign.
Speaking out for the first time since Mr Brown's apology, Mrs Duffy added: "He wanted me to go outside with him and shake his hands for the camera but I said no. I didn't want that fuss."
Mrs Duffy said she was "shocked" by the episode and felt more "sad" than "angry" about what happened
