Pretty low blow from @SkyNews, if daft from Clarke and Rifkind (who of all people...) http://news.sky.com/story/1721982/watch-ken-clarke-ridicules-tory-candidates …
Decent journalists respect off-the-record conversations. That was clearly off-the-record.
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it's a tough one. Brown's comments in Rochdale were off the record but revealed an underlying hypocrisy
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I thought Brown was spot on. The hypocrisy was going to apologise.
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I am not aware woman was a racist. Just the poorest have benefited least from EU.
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He didn't call her racist, called her a "bigot". Her comments at about 2:20 fit the bill http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8649476.stm …
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it is this attitude that lost the referendum. That the people who were missing out were just bigots who could be ignored.
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sorry going off topic my point was it was an otr convention which was in public interest to broadcast
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I'd say, even as a journalist, that public interest is very slight. They have opinions on candidates. Who'd have thunk it?
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I think the Gove comments are public interest. Perhaps not others. He was sitting on a tv studio notLong range microphone
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this less so perhaps but arguably in the public interest. Boundaries are difficult and sitting in a tv studio is one
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