A Balloon Debate on Woman's Hour, with Louise Bagshawe making the case for Margaret Thatcher as something or other. "She got their on her own" as "the ultimate working mum". Unutterable twaddle, of course. Totally at variance with the facts. The audience did not exactly lap it up.
Like Liz Truss, Louise Bagshawe is just awful. Listening to either of them is not at all like listening to women in their thirties. It is like listening to a certain type of tiresome fresher girl who, mostly because Daddy has furnished her with an income comparable to a professional salary, thinks that she is that age and expects to be treated accordingly. Are all the new Conservative women like that?
According to today's Daily Telegraph, Sarah Palin also thinks the same.
ReplyDelete"she started life as a grocer's daughter from Grantham and rose to become prime minister - all by her own merit and hardwork"
Well, that settles it, then.
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with marrying a millionaire so that she could read for the Bar and then search for a seat. Perish the thought.
But then, it's not as if she married up. Her father was a leading local businessman and politician who ran most of the charities and committees for miles around, sent her to a fee-paying school, and then put her through Oxford without a scholarship.