...to be absolutely disgusted by Michael Gove's comments?

[MaryMcCarthy]

I suppose we all knew what Thatcherism and the modern Conservatives were about, but to hear it spoken out loud, with such disdain, just makes me so angry. Whether he said it last week or last century I'm just boiling with rage at how such callous sociopaths can rise to such high positions of power. I dare say we need a revolution in this country.

What did he say?

What comments?

I would need to know what his comments were.

The comments might be helpful

Link please

Sorry, my Mystic Meg powers have failed here OP.

I would also like to know what he said

What's he said?

Fit did he say?

Is the recording of him saying racist, sexist and homophobic comments?

If so it doesn’t surprise me. He’s an odious little man.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-sexist-racist-speech-b1918058.html

Found it. Can’t say I’m surprised mans always been an utter prick

Did a quick search, it's stuff he said in the 80s whilst at Cambridge

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-sexist-racist-speech-b1918058.html

twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1437450308691632135?s=21

“the happy south stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the northerner”,

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-sexist-racist-speech-b1918058.html

No one is surprised by this, surely?

Did a quick search, it's stuff he said in the 80s whilst at Cambridge

Gove studied at Oxford. The comments were made during debates at Cambridge, while he was working as a journalist.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-sexist-racist-speech-b1918058.html%3famp

It's things said 30-40 years ago? I understand holding people accountable for things they say, however people change huge amounts in that amount of time. I don't understand this way people will look 40 years into someone's past to be offended? By today's standards they're hugely offensive things to say, 40 years ago things were very very different.

YABU to not tell us the comments. I don’t want to google it because I’ll have to look at his face then

I don’t know why people pretend to be shocked. Literally nothing he said surprised me. His contempt for anyone not like him is palpable.

@CorrBlimeyGG

Did a quick search, it's stuff he said in the 80s whilst at Cambridge

Gove studied at Oxford. The comments were made during debates at Cambridge, while he was working as a journalist.

You his mate or something

@santaslittlehohoho

It's things said 30-40 years ago? I understand holding people accountable for things they say, however people change huge amounts in that amount of time. I don't understand this way people will look 40 years into someone's past to be offended? By today's standards they're hugely offensive things to say, 40 years ago things were very very different.

Nope. I am old enough to know that even 40 years ago only out and out racists used the term "f* w***"

He is a disgusting bigot.

I'm not sticking up for him as such but to be fair though it was 40 years ago? the world is a different place now and there is more awareness and consciousness than there was in the 80's. Rightly or wrongly racism, misogyny, middle class snobbery, xenophobia and Thatcherism was the norm.

No, it was still wrong 40 years ago. It wasn't the dark ages.

holy god I just watched it! isnt it awful that that stuff was deemed ok to say!

Rightly or wrongly racism, misogyny, middle class snobbery, xenophobia and Thatcherism was the norm

Not amongst the younger generation it wasn't. Many of us were fighting against all those things. Gove would have been seen by a large swathe of his contemporaries as a racist for using that term.

Oh dear I was going to say it's 40 years ago, let it go. But having read it