Despite being Shadow Minister for Public Health and claiming to be a campaigner to improve children’s diets, Labour’s ‘jolly giant’ Sharon Hodgson is a big fan of kebabs. This Geordie ex-payroll clerk once claimed she’d rescue her handbag if her house were on fire, remarked: “Labour is teetering on the edge of political irrelevance” in 2016 and in 2017 usefully concluded: “Brexit has given us the capacity to look at things differently”. She’s up there with Diane Abbott in terms of her brainbox qualities.
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Catherine Mayer
Not to be confused with the less distinguished wife of a former ambassador who shares the same Christian name and a similar surname, this “Jewish high achiever” is the editor at large of TIME and wrote Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly in 2011. Mayer holds dual U.S. and British citizenship and is […]
Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (1923 – 2014)
At one point both an MP and an MEP at the same time, this former Conservative member for Lancaster (1970 – 1997) was known for her “trill” voice and once described as sounding like a “squawking parrot”. A strict Methodist, Kellett-Bowman was a campaigner for the return of the death penalty and against moral laxity […]
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She meant well originally. That’s about all that can be said of her. She insulted Jeremy Corbyn but returned to the fold. Just another typical politician really.
She ate the barbie and then raided the kebab stall too by the look of her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Teresa May could knock her out in one STRONG AND STABLE blow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This sheila won’t be making GREAT BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN, Teresa will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As much use as a chocolate tea pot.
No, Alan: As much use as a dodgy kebab.
She is the best of a very bad bunch.
Does she holiday on sunbeds?
I hear she is actually a very good constituency MP.
Another weasel.
Hmmm
Looks like shes a frequent flyer through the McDonalds drive through, on the way to the office.