BNP to pounce on Brown's "bigot" gaffe with last minute ad campaign
Today's newspapers are awash with coverage of Gordon Brown's overheard comments in which he described one staunch Labour supporter as a bigot. The BNP is to pounce on this gaffe by launching a press ad campaign.
Announced in a BNP email, party leader Nick Griffin has pounced on Brown's overheard comments, in which he described a woman he had met in Rochdale, Gillian Duffy, as a "bigot" running to Mrs Duffy's defence.
In the message to BNP supporters Griffin said: "She [Mrs Duffy] asked some very sensible questions about taxation on pensions and the immigration problem. For Mr Brown to have then dismissed her as a bigot just because she asked him about immigration shows the utter contempt with which the Labour Party regards even their own voters."
"The BNP will be launching a newspaper advertising campaign to focus voters' attention on this shocking state of affairs. Our target areas are going to be Barking and Dagenham, Leicestershire, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and Barnsley."
Yesterday, crisis PR expert Jonathan Hemus spoke to The Drum about how Brown's team should handle 'Bigotgate'.