Revealed: Michael Gove’s sexist, racist and homophobic speeches 

He has always been and will always remain an absolute waste of oxygen. Despicable doesn't start to describe him.

So, our next Prime Minister then.

The comments about New York bath houses are quite revealing...

Don't surprise me. They are all the same. If he was being antisemitic he would had lost his job already.

I bet every Tory talks like this behind closed doors.

That Gove was invited to speak again and again says more about Cambridge than about him. And it come as no surprise he found employment with the BBC.

Either he's upset someone or it's his ticket out. The media protect their own.

Not surprising is it to be honest, I'd imagine all the Eton boys' club tory toffs that run our country hold similar views but are just smart enough to not get recorded.

We know, they are all like THIS 🤷🏽‍♂️

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his ticket was out, now we know what the dancing moves were all about. Always the slippery snake. How could anyone trust this guy to run the country or vote brexit!!

Not a surprise, I’ll wager all of them have skeletons like this in their expensive, privileged closets. The question is why him and why now?

Hope he gets fired

I wonder if he’ll be hitting the clubs of Aberdeen this coming weekend after these remarks have been made public

Wonder why the leak now? Something is happening... and who leaked it?

Sounds like the rantings of a self confessed class A drugs abuser. Oh sorry he is.

Fuzzy wuzzy, I thought I had heard every back racial slur this one is new. however, why now. Who has been sitting on these recordings for 3 decades only to unleash them now? I makes you wonder who is shaking the house of cards.

This isn’t just the words of Gove. They represent the thoughts of most of Westminster.

Lol, bye bye Mr gove, don't let the door hit you on the way out.👍😂

He looks like a puppet. 😀

We all know he was on the old sniffaroo back in the good old days, it clearly made him not give a single fig.

this is none news anybody who grew up in the 80s and 90s knows this is super tame

He's a creepy guy, you can tell by looking at him.

The Independent is deleting my comments

He always looked like a worm, so my eyes didn't deceive me

Sickening and putrid , he laughs with his equals 🤮🤮🤮

This man is also a eugenics advocate.

Fascists will be fascists.

How can kids who don't know each other, all know where Leon's birthmark was ?

No surprise, majority of those in power think like this, still holding on to the empire and being better than the others .

Maybe someone shouldn’t be in prison for 18 years for perverting the course of justice #coverup

He said mean hurty words when he was younger 🤦‍♂️😂 This is journalism

Lmao people really pressed at this? Its so funny

Why am I not surprised, he is a tory after all, that is typically what a modern day tory is. No shame, no compassion, no empathy, greedy, racist, sexist, they are the opposite of what makes a person civilised. And our country continues to vote for them. I despair.

Disgusting how dare he and this government!!

I wouldn't expect antthing else from the man who banned books that teach judging a person for their character rather than their race from high schools across the UK.

Most Tories believe these things and express these opinions amongst themselves.

-- Pretends to be shocked - 😮, one of the slimiest of the lot, and thats saying something

A few decades late to get angry about this. Did Gove forget to pay blackmail money or something?

I don't understand how some of this is so bad. It's blunt and on the nose but no different from a comedy roast you might see on tv. There is nothing incriminating here so this all offence culture nonsense. Micheal Gove is a not a great man but he is not evil, to describe him as such is to separate your self from the evil of man. It's ridiculous because I know some people who happily defend some they approved of when they made comments like this but as it's Gove who no one likes it's justification for murder.

When he said fuzzie wuzzies I thought it was an episode of Dad's Army. Then I remembered his oh so slappable face and I had a little cry.

who would have voted for Michael Gove

What a lad!

This is brilliant.

So is this a surprise? Or just hearing it in a concentrated format reinforces his disgusting 🤮 brand of morality

So fucking what?? The day we can't make jokes is the day we're all fucked! (Oh wait.. that day's been and gone)

disgraceful

Disgusting he needs to resign.

Michael Gove seems to have a lot of knowledge about gay bathhouses!

As a northerner it just confirms that those in power don't care about those who have been forgotten about and in fact are gleeful that we suffer. These classist attitudes are disgusting and if a revolution happens (fingers crossed it happens) I would happily be the one to tie the noose when their time comes.

We were warned not to feed him after midnight.

He made jokes and said naughty words, how dare he

A racist tory? who would have thought it?

The emperor Johnson has decided he has to go

You can't judge things said in 1987 according to the woke/PC standards of 2021. What people thought was reasonable and would say casually then was different to now. Many people have revised those views since then...or know to speak them is now unacceptable. Also in the context of a debate he may not have been giving his personal views but making an argument for a case he was chose to represent for the sake of the argument. I'm not a fan of Michael Gove but as a black woman am tired of woke white liberals calling everyone racist when that may not be the case...and when they themselves have completely failed to address their own racist and white supremacist attitudes. What Gove said there was nothing compared to what racism, homophobia and sexism people really faced back then...and guess what? We survived it!!

Decent bit of roast stand up at the end. Obviously a dick move if wasn't expected but had good timing and decent put downs. Shame it was 1 sided and to someone who literally requested him speaking

What has Gove done to deserve this? Clearly he has upset someone? And what Beans has he got to spill about the rest?

Why doesn’t the independent go ahead and slander all those in the audiences who laughed at his jokes? Makes total sense in this upside down world…

Guilty. Of having a sense of humour.

His face and a cricket bat need to be made best of friends.

Back to 87. A slow news day?

Not only are his comments unpleasant and inappropriate, but his audience also didn't have any ethics either.

Good man! It is always tough when someone says it the way it is, and is amusing as well, but I don’t think he ought to let himself be filmed dancing!

How is this not bigger news

He still hasn't gotten over the fact that women are allowed in public houses.

The years weren't kind to his looks were they. Addled his brain too. Sniff.

These comments are from the 1980s and 90s lmao. Really trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel here.

Given the racist, heterophobic and sexist speeches from female MPs in the last 5 years and for equality in going to treat anything gove has said the same as those women's speeches were.

It's called debate and satire, it hasn't aged well but you're taking it out of context.

Hes not wrong fuzzy wuzzers wrecking London

Im wondering why L. Fraser hasnt said anything. Yet.

That cut bit relating to Leon Britton needs to be heard in full.

Im Black and i DONT MIND being called fuzzy wuzzies !

Who fucking CARES? And wouldn't we all love to hear secret recordings of conversations that people who work at The Independent have had since they are so keen on OTHER peoples conversations. Now THAT would be very interesting to hear.

Some of these are just hilarious…

Did none of these journalist spend time at student debating societies in former decades before the current era of stifled speech and humour madness? They are missing the point.

Spot on as always Gove! Gotta love em

And he sneaks into nightclubs on the hunt for young girls

Political activists larping as journalists

How dare he say the naughty words !

Presumably the indy will go after labour and its own questionable comments next?

He's a dark horse that boy😂

how is anyone surprised by this crap anymore.

Please remember Afghanistan.

Gove is being kept in check. Not a bad thing.

It was decades ago, Keep up the fact that nobody can change. I don’t even like him but this is just pathetic, so many weak people nowadays.

Came here just to see who the guy in Spitting Image is.

These psychopaths need to be stopped so out of touch. All of them now rule the country.

Standard woke journalists in 2021 🤦‍♂️🙄

35 years ago I went to a speech by Enoch Powell at a University Student Union.The topic was uncontroversial and it was broken up by protestors.Should I be no platformed and cancelled for life for that sin?

This honestly just made the guy more likable and human lol

So they jailed that guy for telling the truth 🤷🏽‍♂️👺

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Why has he not been held to account for these speeches? It is your job 'The Independent , ' to pursue this, especially as a few days after your revelation he has been promoted in Government. This is what is wrong with our beautiful UK, the insidious treachery within.

I can only try to sympathise. I mean it's very unlikely he was getting much action and knowing us gays were getting our fair share must have made him green with envy!

Well lads, looks like Boris got fed up of his lapdog, If only the rest would all do the same to each other and we could get rid of the whole lot of them. Then again, who takes over? Red, blue, yellow? all the same, charlatans one and all.

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What a shock

The terms 'sexist', 'racist' and 'homophobic' are so overused now that they're pretty well meaningless. All it takes is to even slightly disagree with someone who ticks the right boxes to be faced with a barrage of such accusations.

Wonder why he is being smeared? He’s doing the treble lol 😂