I had better not say what I would like to happen to this woman

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There is no more repulsive figure in British politics than Margaret Hodge. In the Eighties, as Labour boss of London's Islington Council, she not only aggressively covered up a major paedophile scandal in the council's care homes, but publicly libelled the victims - for which I for one have never forgiven her. Incomprehensibly (or rather, all too comprehensibly, since Tony Blair lived in Islington and was her friend) she not only survived this abomination, but was actually elected to the Commons and promoted to minister - and minister for children, at that! An outcry from people who, like me, remembered, forced her transfer somewhere else; but wherever she went, she left the traces of ham-fisted party conformity, grovelling ambition, and flatfooted political hackery. She is a born crawler, made to grovel before party bosses and to stomp on the common people who pay her wages.

This, however, is the straw that breaks the camel's back: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/04/nprom204.xml

Comments

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

It's unpopular in some "intellectual" and political circles to celebrate, laud or openly display appreciation, adoration, love or any sort of positive attitude of patriotism or love of country.

Your response to jordan179 was spot on.

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Actually, this is not even about any kind of misguided but coherent attempt at an international morality. My view of Hodge is that she is a power-worshipping party hack who would march in a brown shirt if that were the ruling party. Of course, such people can be found everywhere, and it is my impression that they always manage to miss even the point of whatever political faction they fasten on.