2010 United Kingdom general election debates can do something to change our country." The final round of the first ever televised leaders' debates, hosted by the BBC, was held in the Great Hall of Birmingham University on 29 April 2010. The background to the debate was overshadowed a day before by a remark made by Gordon Brown in private, while being driven away after canvassing in Rochdale, when he met retired council worker Gillian Duffy. In the remark, caught by a lapel microphone, Brown said that "...she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour". At the beginning of the
Not Flash, Just Gordon said, "We have the opportunity to take the strength and conviction that Gordon Brown has shown as prime minister and apply our creativity to that to do the right thing for the country." Labour signed the deal with Saatchi and Saatchi on 12 September 2007. Not Flash, Just Gordon Not Flash, Just Gordon was an advertising campaign used by the British Labour party in 2007. The advert was created in anticipation that Prime Minister Gordon Brown may call a "Snap election". The advert was made by Saatchi & Saatchi, Margaret Thatcher's favourite advert agency. Labour's general election co ordinator Douglas