Look at her now, she’s starting to yawn
The Independent: Hodge tells sacked Rover workers: get a job at Tesco
Margaret Hodge, the work and pensions minister, has come under fire from former MG Rover workers after she suggested the skilled workers should take jobs in a supermarket.
There’s always been a whiff of the Mary Antoinette about Margaret Hodge. Who can forget her branding of a sex abuse victim as “extremely disturbed” when he dared to speak out about how he’d been abused while in the care of the London Borough of Islington in the late 70s. While Hodge had not been leader of the council at the time she had been when whistleblowers later approached her about sexual abuse in care homes across the borough. Hodge refused to provide extra staff to investigate the allegations and an independent report later condemned the “disastrous” council for not investigating. Hodge was defended in the press by no less luminaries than Polly Toynbee and Roy Hattersley.
And now it’s the Longbridge workers who Hodge wants to eat cake. Along with those herds of miners and dockers who, sold out by Labour, ended up in call centres and as greeters at B&Q.
Margaret Hodge is 61.
(File under: Politics, New Labour, Margaret Hodge)
Posted on June 17th, 2005 at 10:02 am
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Didn’t Ms Hodge advetise for a nanny in that great proletarian magazine, ‘The Lady’?
You know, I rather think she did:
“You felt she was a lady seeking power. She never had to do a day’s work in her life. She was a leftwinger with an Islington town house and cottage in Norfolk. And while she was leading the revolution, she was advertising for a nanny in the Lady.”
This is, of course, the same Margaret Hodge that accused universities of running Mickey Mouse degrees. One can expect no better from yet another ex-leftwinger turned gamekeeper (if you see what I mean).
I remember seeing Hodge on “Question Time” a few months ago - she was the most patronising and insincere politician I think I have ever seen on television, and that’s saying something.
VILE VILE VILE woman
Tiny Blurrggh promotes people for their loyalty - not their ability, STOOPID!!!