The world’s media is currently preparing to bring us the news that Nelson Mandela has died. Obituaries have been long written, as Mandela has been in ill health for some time.

Those obituaries will undoubtedly acknowledge him as the man who almost single handedly ended Apartheid, a man who despite being held captive for 27 years, always remained dignified and courageous. never answered racism with racism.

 The inevitability of death has been faced it seems with same grace, courage and dignity. South Africa has been holding a vigil for their first ever black president for weeks, thinking his death was imminent, yet incredibly he is still hanging on with the determination he lived his life by.

Many world leaders have already paid tributes to the man, some of whom previously described as a terrorist.. He was to be fair, the co-founder of a militant group in 1961 which led to a bombing campaign against the government, ultimately leading to him being jailed for life for attempting to over throw the government and sabotage.

Retrospectively, however, it is hard to imagine the hardship and oppression, which he and his fellow black South Africans endured. It is not difficult to understand the anger that led him down that path. One could argue that in today’s world he would not have needed to do what he did. He is famously quoted as saying during his trial, at which he faced the death penalty ““I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

After being jailed he never faltered in his fight for equality. Indeed his beliefs were so robust it is said he turned down conditional offers of freedom several times, before finally being released in February 1990.

Four years later he was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratically elected President. He stepped down after one term, aged 81. He was and will continue to be after his passing, an inspirational figure. 

Reading about his early political activity and the accusations of terrorism reminded me of the fight against racism in our country today.

The EDL have been marching through major cities, organizing mass demonstrations which have led to accusations of them being racist, violent bullies. The very kind of people Mandela might have considered the enemy.

The leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson strenuously denies these allegations against him despite previous convictions for violent behavior. His “members” were pictured wearing balaclavas and acting in a very menacing and threatening way following the atrocious murder of soldier Lee Rigby in London. Robinson also claims that pictures and even videos of members making offensive gestures have been doctored.  He said recently in an interview with BBC journalist Andrew Neil that the EDL had no membership yet their official website bosts that it has 35,908 members.

The website also carries a mission statement that does stress that is a human rights organization set up in response to the actions of a very small minority of Muslim extremists. It also acknowledges that many Muslims are the victims and that not all Muslims are bad. They appear to be trying very hard to be taken seriously by the media while attacking people in cities up and down the country both verbally and physically. They recently tried to march through Sheffield twice, on both occasions being massively outnumbered and out shouted. The message from the people of Sheffield is the same message as the rest the country. The EDL are not wanted, not welcome and will not win support through intimidation.

Mr Robunson was arrested today while attempting a “walk of honour”, before being released on bail. While being bungled into the police vehicle he said “You couldn't make this up. The whole world is watching. All we want to do is complete our sponsored walk. Is this freedom in 2013?

The worry for me is that Mr Robinson and his disciples will become martyrs and win support from freedom of speech and human rights champions. If we are not careful when expelling him from the debate we may actually give his cause credibility.

The EDL says it is not racist yet almost every line of its mission statement is anti-Muslim.

They claim to want freedom of speech while publically criticizing the Quran.

The EDL are hypocrites, hooligans and racists. Hopefully, they will in the future be shown as that and condemned. History will say Nelson Mandela was everything that Tommy Robinson is not.

                                                                          

Pensioner’s – you’ve never had it so good..

There has been a lot of talk recently about whether or not old age pensioners should be exempt from the cuts. Labour has said that if they win the next election, they will have to look at benefits paid to pensioners such as heating allowance.

For years political parties have been afraid to touch benefits given to the elderly as they are the bulk of the electorate. More pensioners vote in elections than any other age group.

It is right that in these times of austerity, when benefits are been slashed for the unemployed and even tax credits to the poorly paid are under threat, that wealthy rich people should not be exempt.

Obviously no one wants to see elderly people alone and already living in poverty squeezed further but many people entitle to old age pension now are the most comfortable generation ever. Many benefitted from good private and employer pensions, earning more in retirement than thousands do in work today. Many will have been lucky enough to purchase their homes at prices so low the values will have increased tenfold in many cases. I know of people who bought council homes in Sheffield for as little as £6000 which are now worth over £100,000

Taking all these things into account it is evident that there will be elderly couples who are mortgage free, taking home £350 plus per week in pensions and in many cases, still holding a part time job. Why should they also be given free bus passes, heating allowances and free TV licence?  Once upon a time the argument was that these people had fought wars and earned the right to a little privilege in their old age. Not so many these days.

On the other side of the coin there will be people “retiring” who have not worked for twenty years. Is it then fair to punish the people who worked to buy their homes and pay into private pensions so that we can afford to pay people who have squandered their wages or contributed little in the first place? The incentive to save in private pensions would be damaged and people may think they are better off having no provisions to look after themselves in old age,

Of course this is wrong. That is why the only fare way to decide who gets help is means testing.

I don’t want to see vulnerable little old ladies with no money forced to into further poverty. For many a free bus pass is the only way to get out of the house, the other passengers and people in town will sadly for many old people be the only other people they see. For those people that bus pass is absolutely vital.

However, there will be people of the same age receiving a free bus pass, who have a Mercedes Benz parked in the double garage. The same people may have a holiday home in the south of France and live there 6 months a year while claiming heating allowance. The problem is the obvious lack of consistency, both in lifestyles and incomes. There are such wildly differing circumstances that a universal –everyone gets benefit is ludicrous.

There are millions of people of working age that already claiming tax credits or unemployment benefits. There are many old people claiming pension credits meaning that HMRC already holds information about the vast majority of people in this country. I don’t understand why means testing would be so expensive if HMRC already has the data.

There is also an argument I have heard that some elderly people are too pride to claim if they had to apply for it. TOUGH! They obviously don’t need it that badly then.  

We simply cannot afford not to means test pensioners along with everyone. There will be readers who will say undoubtedly that it is more complicated than I have implied and that pensioners have earned the right to luxuries but in a country that is supposed to be financial leader, it incomprehensible that millionaires living abroad are given the same benefits as vulnerable, penniless old people struggling alone in poverty. It’s simply not fair.

multi-millionaire O A P Paul McCartney

 

                  Homes for life or just until you’re successful?

An independent report published today, claims that the average young couple with children, will need to save for a deposit for 12 years. The report goes on to say that a childless couple living in Yorkshire will need to save for almost five years to get a deposit on a house, where the average property is £87,599.

With unemployment levels still high and banks remaining reluctant to lend, getting a mortgage if you do manage to raise the deposit is no easy task. The government’s Help to buy scheme, where only a 5% deposit is needed would mean a couple with children in London would have to save for an estimated 20years according to Shelter.

With that in mind, many are left paying over inflated rents to private landlords for often poor accommodation while sitting on council housing waiting lists.  It is a fact acknowledged by all political parties that there is a shortage of 1 and 2 bedroom properties. Councils and housing associations are desperately short of suitable properties. While consecutive governments have continued to sell off council houses and failed to build replacements, there simply are not enough properties left to meet the demand of an ever growing population.

While most agree investment in building more properties is needed, some claim that the answer is to evict those families who can afford to pay rent freeing up homes for the very poorest and unemployed.

There are several obvious flaws in this argument.

Even if there was a cap, where any one earning over £25,000 per annum for example would lead to people being afraid to succeed, knowing that a promotion at work might result in having to move the kids from their current school and into a less comfortable property. It would create disincentives.

 At present, council tenancies are for life. This means that couple are able to build up their family while striving to improve their lives knowing that they are laying down roots that they have a roof over their heads. The alternative is simply a generation of nomads.

 Families wanting to live in a nice house will spend money to make council houses nice for their family, if they know they are staying as long as they need the home. If tenancies were reviewed or there a chance that if you are lucky enough to get a job then you will be forced to move, the likelihood is that tenants will not spend their money improving the home.

Others suggest that certain professions should be banned from council homes, such as union leaders and members of parliament. Again, this would only serve as a disincentive to working class people to aim for the better jobs. Aspirations would be crushed while the working class would be unrepresented in the top jobs, even more than they are already.

Aspirations and incentives aside, if the only people allowed to live on council estates were the poor or unemployed, then those estates would become ghettoised workless lifeless crime ridden no go areas. The cost of which would be massive. The cost of crime and the fact that no one would be paying full rent and in many cases no rent, would put greater burdens on local authorities no ease them.

Investment is needed urgently to build houses, and the occupants need to be from all walks of society. There should be a sliding scale of rents and taxes that reflects the tenant’s ability to pay. This way, local authorities will get money they need to provide services that they cannot afford at the moment due to crippling cuts to budgets.  I would like to see my local councillor or trade unionist living next door to the unemployed or low paid manual workers living next door to journalists and teachers. That is the way to set an example and breed aspirations. That is the way to lift the quality of council estates.

Obviously, there needs to be strict criteria on allocation of these properties. There needs to be proper consideration to the most needy getting them. There is even an argument that there should be a minimum waiting time to stop giving immigrants who have just arrived, priority over families with a history in the area.

   There is to some extent still a degree of snobbery from critics of council estates. The middle classes look down their noses at the people living on them, thinking they are full of work shy chavs. If hard working men and women who have bettered themselves lived on these estates the stigma would start to erode and maybe decent people might once again be proud to stay on the estates. There used to be a phrase that an Englishman’s home is his castle, if we are not careful an Englishman’s home will be just a dream…

council flats-just a dream for some?

 

                    SKINT:

I have been asked several times this week, for my opinion on the TV show, Skint. Initially, I of course jumped to the defence of working class people on council estates, stating that programmes such as this play into the hands of the ignorant viewer, while encouraging middle class journalists for newspapers like the Daily Mail to accuse everyone living on these estates of being scum. This was my natural stance before even seeing the show. Sadly, my knee jerk reaction was accurate and the opinion of most people who watched thinks that the participants are scum.

They may well be right. I caught the last five minutes of an episode quite accidently and had to agree, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. I suspect however, that that is the point. Set on the Westcliff estate in Scunthorpe, the programme focuses on about twelve families from the 2000 families which live there. Presumably, they auditioned or at the very least chose these families for their shock value. The programme sets out to do nothing to help families stuck in poverty, just sensationalise and stigmatise. There will, no doubt be many families living on the very same estate, who have jobs, morals and a sense of how to conduct one’s self in public. These are not the qualities the TV executives were looking for to pull in the viewers. Programmes such as this purposely choose people who are likely to shock, people who are vulnerable and preferably unaccustomed to having a TV crew follow them; people who will play up for the cameras and are happy to sell their souls for 15 minutes of fame. If you tell a bunch of uneducated, desperate people that they are going to be the stars of a TV show if the show off a little bit, the results will inevitably, be a car crash.

That said, these are of course, real people. There are real people who do not want a job. There are real people who swear too much and too loudly. There are real people who go out during the day wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown. There are real people on real council estates who behave appallingly. They are not the norm. As much the Mail would love us all to believe that council estates up and down the country are littered with families like these, scrounging off the hard working tax payer, taking drugs and having too many kids (probably out of wedlock), the fact is that the majority of people on the majority of estates are not like that. Someone said to me, “obviously, you will say they’re the minority”… They are the minority. They in no way represent me or many of the people I know and have known all my life who live on council estates. That however, does not make it OK.

It isn’t enough to glamourize this lifestyle for a TV show, these people need help. I heard people say their benefits should be stopped. I have heard people say they should be forced to get a job – if there are no jobs where they live they should move. I have heard people say that they should be given vouchers and no money.

I fail to see how any of these solutions would help the desperados being accused or those supposedly paying the bill for them. In many cases, taking away the little money they have would force even more into crime and drugs. It would push many into depression and mental illness and physical hardship. There is no one size fits all solution to this problem because different people will respond differently to different incentives. While some may well say oh well I’ve had a good run – now I’ll get a job, others would be absolutely incapable of getting a job without expert help. There will be people who have never had a job, whose parent have never had a job. There will be some whose Grandparents never had a job. It would be foolish to think that simply saying to those people that benefits will be stopped, would push them into employment.

There needs to be investment in areas of significant poverty and unemployment. There needs to be agencies to guide these people, educate and train these people. There should also be initiatives and incentives to businesses to invest in these areas. One big employer on an estate like that could turn the lives of thousands of people around but why would a business want to employ people like those on Skint?

Demonising, punishing and stigmatising will not improve the lives of these people nor will it make them want to improve. It will alienate them even further. The unemployed, uneducated and uncouth are represented by no one. There are few or no journalists from similar backgrounds and fewer still politicians. Although working class has become a dirty phrase, working class is no longer the lowest class. A new lesser class has been created by the media, running wild on our streets like stray dogs, causing mayhem and offence to the public at large.

Newspapers and TV producers are supposed to report the news not make it. There is a growing trend of finding the lowest possible level of acceptable behaviour and catapulting it to fame on our screens and in our tabloids. STOP! Stop putting these people on TV. Why not make a programme about helping these people to train to be able to access the jobs market or a programme about how the fortunes of a poor family have been turned around by interventions and encourage others to do likewise. The reason is that programmes like that do not attract the same audience or the same sensational gossip and outrage. The very poorest in society are being exploited and encouraged to be morally bankrupt by TV producers for sake of good telly.

Yesterday, the UK watched in horror as the storey unfolded of the brutal murder in broad daylight, of a young soldier.

Initial reports claimed the assailants were of “Muslim appearance”.

The attackers unusually, did not flee the scene but in a chilling twist stayed and encouraged witnesses to take photographs of the body and of them. ITV broadcast the pictures and scenes of one of the attackers calmly apologising for women having to witness his attack.

The fall out was unfortunately quite predictable.

The vile hatred of ignorant, narrow minded, racist idiots spewed out all over social networking sights like face book and Twitter. There were reports of mosques being set fire to and angry mobs gathering in areas of London and other cities.

I saw one post saying the only way to stop these tragedies is to kill all Muslims and send them home.

If the attacker was a a small fat balding Catholic, would we have reacted in the same way? I very much doubt that Catholic churches would have been attacked or all men fitting that description would be accused of being the same.

Were Doctors surgeries set alight when Harol Shipman went on a killing spree? Of course not.

While many many Muslims and community leaders condemned the actions of these two attackers, I was ashamed (again) to be British.

There were reports on TV that some young Muslims had celebrated the attack, but the majority of honest decent human beings would not rejoice at the savage killing of fellow human being.

If I put myself in the shoes of a Muslim man or woman living in this country, working and paying my way, contributing to society – how would I feel at the wide spread assault on me and my family and friends by the country I have adopted as my home?

I would probably feel threatened and alienated. I would probably think people in this country were narrow minded yobs who judge people at face value and make incorrect dangerous assumptions.

It is interesting that this has happened when all the major political parties, revved up and egged on by the UKIP surge in popularity, are talking about immigration. I don’t think it is helpful to breed a culture where people are not welcome in our country. We are told constantly that immigrants will come here rape our women and take our houses while living on handouts from our already buckling welfare state. While I welcome responsible debate, surely it needs to a balanced one by people who are not extremists or bigots or thugs.

As they say “The pen is mightier than sword”, however, if the pen cuts a large portion of the country to ribbons and accuses its residents of being guilty by association every time a lunatic acts badly then the sword will prosper and and we will all suffer the consequences.

2012/13 season. Any surprises? Not really..

With the 2012/13 football season enjoying its final breaths, all but a few of the ups and downs are decided.

In August, I predicted Robin Van Persie would prove the difference and secure the title for Manchester United. I was right. With 25 goals so far, Van Persie helped United stroll to the title with a couple of weeks to spare.

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez finished the season in disgrace on 23 before being banned for 10 games after biting a Chelsea player. Many an argument ensued, with some Reds’ faithful claiming the Uruguayan was harshly treated and that biting was no worse than a bad a tackle. As tackling is an integral part of the game and biting ones opponent is the savage action of animals, I disagree with these claims and hope sincerely that the Merseyside club has the integrity to sell him off at the end of the season. The Premier league and his club would undoubtedly miss his talent, but it is time a message was sent out to players that they are role models to millions of kids, and as such must display exemplary behaviour on the field or face the same consequences that any other employee would face – the sack. However, I suspect Suarez, who was banned last season for racism, will still be at Anfield next season, because sadly money is all that talks in the game these days.

A disappointing season for United’s neighbours City, at least by last season’s standards, sees them look set for the runners up spot.

Considering that in 2003 a successful season saw City finish sixteenth again highlights the absolute importance of money. The millions they have spent have bought expectation and success, much like rivals Chelsea.

The London club have dominated the top 3 for the last decade since Roman Abramovich rode into the capital with his billions. They will be hoping to finish 3^rd again despite my tip for top scorer Fernando Torres, again failing to find the form he enjoyed at Liverpool. With only 7 goals this season, he has hit the net 3 times less than relegated Reading’s super sub Adam Le fondre. Torres’ lack of prowess in front of goal may have contributed to Blues legend Roberto Di Matteo losing his job as manager after just eight months, despite guiding the club to Champions league victory.

Arsenal and Spurs are fighting to the bitter end for fourth spot after double pfa player of the year winner Gareth Bale inspired a remarkable season for Andre Villas-Boas’ men. 23 year old came in for criticism early in the season for falling down too easily and too often but proved his critics wrong by winning the prestigious football writers player of the year award.

The Gunners meanwhile had a poor start to the season, with many calling for Wenger to be relieved of the manager’s job he has held since 1996. A good run of results and the introduction of Santi Cazorla and the impressive form of England winger Theo Walcott, has seen them salvage the season.

At the other end of the table, I like many tipped Reading for an immediate return to the championship. With less than half a dozen wins all season they didn’t surprise many dropping straight back down. Joining them are big spending QPR, who after losing faith with Mark Hughes appointed Harry Redknapp to keep the dream alive. On lone exile Joey Barton described the highly paid Rangers failures as maggots after they dropped into second tier, while he enjoyed a season in France.

The last relegation spot will be decided on the final day with perennial strugglers Wigan looking favourite to fall. Former European champions Aston Villa, will be lucky to stay up though after another poor season while Paul Lambert rebuilds.

The other teams in the mix, North east rivals Newcastle and Sunderland have had a terrible season, with the Toon dropping like a brick since last season’s success and Sunderland turning to Paulo Di Canio to save their season. Di Canio was welcomed with a fanfare of controversy after the media attacked him for being a fascist, though oddly that never mattered when he was Manager of Swindon Town.

Next seasons debutants in the Premier league will be Cardiff City, after they romped to the Championship title. Hull should join them but my tip for promotion Sheffield Wednesday could still be relegated on the final day. With only a point separating the Owls, Barnsley and Peterborough tomorrow promises to give some late twists and turns. Already down are Bristol City, who were widely tipped to struggle. Perhaps the biggest shock of the Championship season is the once mighty Wolves, relegated from the Premier league last season, they sit second from bottom, three points behind Barnsley and Peterborough.

With the premier league dominated by bad behaviour and a long summer of no football, we are in desperate need of some change by next season. There will undoubtedly be an influx of foreign stars at the top clubs, blowing massive amounts of cash, and there is also of course the rumour the special one could return to the bridge. It will be interesting to see who gets the most headlines next season with the mouth-watering prospect of Mourinio and Di Canio clashing horns.

Oh Maggie I wish I never saw your face….

Imagine if you can, a group of people, only vaguely interested in politics, that had never heard of Margaret Thatcher. What would they expect the first and only female Prime minister’s effect on women in politics and business to be?

If you told them that she had come from humble beginnings, the daughter of a green grocer, which group of people would they expect she strived to help?

Undoubtedly, one could be forgiven for hoping that the first and only woman leader of Britain would have aspirations to promote women and raise awareness of women’s issues- perhaps starting to at least chip away at the glass ceiling that has kept women below men in so many ways for so many decades.

Indeed, one could also be forgiven for thinking that the daughter of a Greengrocer, defying the class divide to reach the most powerful office in the land, might have been a ground-breaker for dragging the working class out of poverty and closer to the higher end of society.

One would of course be absolutely wrong. To start with the Myth that Thatcher came from a humble corner shop, was just that a Myth. Her Father was an Alderman, and a wealthy shop keeper that owned two shops. He went on to Mayor of the town that they lived in. Her school reports allegedly show that that her hobbies as a child were poetry and enjoying piano lessons. Hardly typical working class in 1940’s Britain.

It is the reality of her early life been constantly taught by her ambitious Father that looking after number one was much more important than looking after those less fortunate. Rather than giving the poor and the working class a hand up, improving working conditions for the employed, Thatcher set out to destroy the Trade unions, believing that the way to help the country was to help business men like her Father, that did the employing. She believed everyone could drag themselves up by the bootlaces and if they couldn’t then it was simply survival of the toughest (or richest). She carried out a plan to wipe out the unions she despised so much, wreaking havoc in doing so, not only crushing manufacturing but crushing communities up and down the country. She famously said, “there is no community”. Some argue that the mining industry might still might be flourishing today had she not set out on her campaign to dismantle one of the biggest employers in the country simply to expel the growing power of the NUM. Others of course argue that manufacturing was already dead, unable to compete with progressive world, held back by red tape and bitterness. Some also argue that the pits would be closed by now even if she hadn’t closed them when she did, as the highly dangerous, dirty old fashioned fuel has simply had its day.

All debates on these matters are of course hypothetical. We may never know the answer to any of those arguments.

What we do know is that Thatcher’s government did nothing to look after the victims of the closures. The miners, some of whom had been on strike for over a year, faced hardness never before seen in communities. Father and sons, brothers, friends found themselves at war with each other. Families found themselves hounded out of their homes because the Dad was a scab.

 Some communities still bare the scars of the vicious and violent times that Thatcher’s assault on them brought. Some are not yet even scars, just gaping wounds where a community once lived.

There was no provision for the people forced out of manufacturing and mining. There was no budget to retrain or re-educate. No assistance was given to help reduce the crime that inevitably followed the sudden mass unemployment and poverty. As those out of work reached 3million, the Government forged ahead with the 1980’s Gordon Gekko mantra, telling us that greed was good. Sod the needy, go and get it for you. To hell with looking out for each other and love thy neighbour- look after your self and love thy possessions. A mentality that some believe, may lead to the current economic crisis this country finds itself in.

As the first and only woman to ever lead the conservative party, and the only woman to be Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher deliberately ignored the plight of women because she didn’t want to be recognised as one. She had an all-male cabinet with barely any female politicians being promoted during her time in charge.

She did nothing to strengthen the rights of women at work or in the home. It was only after Thatcher was finally thrown out by her own party and they were eventually voted out of office, that women’s rights began to improve.

All these criticisms considered, it was a remarkable achievement for Margaret Thatcher to make the impression on world politics that she did. Known around the world as the Iron Lady she began to forge lasting friendships with USA, making a close ally of former Actor, President Ronald Regan and playing a lead role in ending the cold war. She stayed in office for three terms, holding the keys to number 10 from 1979 to 1990, the longest premiership of the 20^th century.

It is for these reasons that I find the protests and celebrations distasteful in the wake of her death. For a country that claims continually to be the conscience of the civilised world to have street parties and celebrate the death of an 87 year old lady is frankly obscene. I can understand the pit villages in the north of England have deep rooted hatred for what she did to their lives, their families and their communities. I can understand die hard trade unionists been inwardly pleased that she has gone. But for people to openly show joy at someone’s death does nothing to attract me to politics. It shows that some of the people in this country still are living in a third world yob pack mentality.  The current leader of the NUM appeared on TV to say “I have waited a long time for this day”. A man elected to office to represent those that voted for him, should have the self-discipline to display some humility, respect and compassion at the death of an old lady. She does after all have a grieving family.

Like-wise, the thousands of young people venting their frustration and anger for the Late Mrs T on social networking sites such as twitter and facebook when many of them have never even heard of her is just tasteless pumped up bandwagon hype.

Every news paper and every news channel has been dominated by her death, ignoring all other issues .

Thatchersteria is set to reach a  pulsating crescendo at the weekend when ding dong the witch is dead is expected to reach number one in the charts following a campaign by people who mainly weren’t born when she left office. More bad taste and not even clever. Surely Rod Stewart’s Maggie May would have been a more appropriate protest song- Maggie May have been the first woman PM but did nothing to help her sex. Maggie May have claimed to come from humble beginnings but had no understanding of working people. Maggie May have been the best thing that ever happened to her party but she caused the ultimate annihilation of the working man.

Maggie May have died just in time to save George Osborne from losing his job as public fury grew at his attacks on benefits claimants in the days after child killer Mick Philpotts conviction.

Maggie May have died just in time to take the sting out of the growing campaign against the bedroom tax.

On Wednesday, millions of pounds will be spent laying the former leader to rest. Hopefully then we can put her and the cynical garbage been spouted by all parties about her behind us and get back to real life.

Oh Maggie I wish I never saw your face…….