Michael Gove: Leaked Tapes

Gove had aspirations to be a stand up comedian I believe.
I think that he appeared in some sketches with David Baddiel.
To be honest, after his rather odd appearance at that club, I was expecting to hear more about his alleged fondness for the old Bolivian.
He’s definitely a funny one

Gosh that made really unpleasant listening.
Somebody wants him out. There was talk the other day of him replacing Gavin Williamson in education so this should prevent that.
I can't stand the man and this justifies what I have always suspected. I'm sure he will get away with it after all sitting in No10 with a landslide majority is the teflon king.

It's really disgusting and I can't listen to it again. He has even made me feel sorry for Leon Britton.
This is what these new Tories.
As for the comment about Northerners where does he stand as a Scot Thatcher disliked them even more and showed this by giving them the Poll Tax first.

Could they have fitted much more evidence of privilege in one single broadcast

He’s an odious little man. This disgusting recording should bring about his fall from grace but I think it’s unlikely. Boris Johnson will judge him by his own dubious moral standards and probably say the matter is closed.

Can you remember a few years ago that it was in the media that the 'posh boys' played shag a poor girl week and all those stories about racism in universities. Michael Gove has just exposed how long it has been going on for.

Boris Johnson is just as bad

I am absolutely appalled and can only hope that this puts an end to his political career.

Gove had aspirations to be a stand up comedian I believe.
He was a comic actor before he became a politician, I believe, FannyC.

I haven't listened (yet) but I certainly wouldn't label him as a posh boy whatever else I may think about him.

Listened to it now


However,
As for the comment about Northerners
I did get the irony in that statement about Mrs Thatcher and the North.

Callistemon

^Gove had aspirations to be a stand up comedian I believe^.
He was a comic actor before he became a politician, I believe, FannyC.

I haven't listened (yet) but I certainly wouldn't label him as a posh boy whatever else I may think about him.

Father was a business owner.
Attended very posh private school in Aberdeen.
Studied at Oxford.

Definitely a posh boy. It's a state of mind.

Callistemon

Listened to it now


However,
As for the comment about Northerners
I did get the irony in that statement about Mrs Thatcher and the North.

What was the irony Callistemon the fact that Gove is one?

Thank goodness it's not a sex tape!

I am in Aberdeen, and wrote freelance for the newspapers here where MG was a journalist, so most of this is not new news to me.

I really think that since this has all come up again, Gove needs to resign or be removed from his Cabinet post.

It shouldn't, but timing could see Gove survive, given Boris is focussing on vaccines for children, and boosters for adults, and has also just lost his Mother. Time will tell.

It's interesting that Michael Gove's Scottish accent appears when he is in, or speaking to, Scotland and more or less disappears when he is in London. Just saying. Can't stand the man.

I really think that since this has all come up again, Gove needs to resign or be removed from his Cabinet post.

Given that this was some time ago, I doubt if he'll come under pressure to resign - particularly as he's answerable to a PM who gave the address of a journalist to Darius Guppy knowing that was planning to have him beaten-up.

Wheniwasyourage

It's interesting that Michael Gove's Scottish accent appears when he is in, or speaking to, Scotland and more or less disappears when he is in London. Just saying. Can't stand the man.

I find that's the least annoying thing about him . As an Aberdeenshire quine myself, I know that the accent/dialect can be impenetrable so many of us are "bilingual".

Somebody is out to scupper Gove's career that's for sure. It could be revenge for the backstabbing of Johnson a few years back, it could be a cabal of backbenchers stopping him from being in place as Cummings man with DC pulling the strings. But, and this is a huge but, the morality of this government leaves a great deal to be desired so maybe this isn't quite enough to finish him.

Yes, Alegrias1, I could understand it if he spoke Doric as a native, but he doesn't, and even when he's in Scotland his accent isn't strong. It's just that I get the feeling that he wants to be thought respectable (!!) down south, but show that he's "one of us" up here. Doesn't work!

I have an Aberdeenshire voice, a central Scotland voice and a "rest of the world" voice. I want everybody to like me

I certainly don't think he's one of us - see my posts above! A Robert Gordon's boy....

He was an adopted child, so we don’t actually know his origins. We only know his upbringing. Interesting ‘nature versus nurture’ question there.

His comments are so extreme that I had to wonder if they were genuine.

I like his accent, not keen on anything else about him.

It has to be said, in his defence takes deep breath that these soundbites are carefully edited to show him at his worst, and I suspect that if the entire recording was heard, the context would make them come across differently. This does not detract from the fact they have been released in an edited way to show him at his worst. I imagine that whoever is behind this is desperately trying to find some sort of sex scandal about him, but if that person is reading this, can I please request that they are not released for public viewing not envy

He was a couple of months old when he was adopted, I'm not an expert in these things but I don't think being a objectionable git has anything to do with what his biological background is.

I too think that he thought he was being "funny." Or worse, "clever".

Yes, I think he thought he was being amusing and witty but unfortunately, if these are genuine unedited tapes, then they come across as just offensive.

I do believe people can change for the better but I think they have to hold themselves accountable for misdeeds and prove a change to be forgiven... Neither of which this man has done so no, he should not be in any responsible leadership role in a diverse country where equal rights are valued.

I agree that, given the tone of voice, he thinks he’s being funny.