Ann Widdicombe

Speaking your mind seems to be a metaphor nowadays for ‘nasty little bigot who should crawl back under the rock from whence they came’.

oh yes I agree, there is always a few who pop up on threads like this. Lol. Pot and black

Yep, and your rock is that way crafty

my comment about AW was ‘religious bigot’

Nor did I use the word ‘Little’

Crafty was quoting me Bridgeit

Was thinking exactly the same Firecracker.

Such left wing hatred and vitriol. Blimey!!!

You'll never silence AW. She is wrong about some things, and I do not share her religious convictions. However, she is one of those who has ALWAYS been straight-talking. She will always come back firing on all cylinders. She always has. For decades. What's new?

She tells it as it is - so rare in a politician - (but Benn senior was the same) and that is anathema to some. They hate straight talking.

AW hit a nerve. She was spot on about the way in which the latest EU appointments were made, she was right to warn the other member states about the appalling lack of democracy within the EU. And why shouldn't she state the UK's intention to get out of that stinking mess?

Criticise her all you like, but her maiden speech was a breath of fresh air in that corrupt EU labyrinth.

Trouble is, it's a lavish gravy train for so many politicians and bureaucrats , and no one wants to derail it and give up their lucrative MEP posting.

It's a bit like wallpapering over the cracks to dismiss AW. No wonder the amount of Remainer flak and personal abuse going her way for speaking the truth.

Ohh thanks for that SirChenjin, But happy to be on the same wave length ?

Absolutely hate and vitriol for AW (though not left wing). She brings it all on herself by her abhorrent views.

NF was watching her & grinning like a Cheshire Cat, smirking at having found himself a ‘fall guy’

As I have said before , A few years ago I eagerly attended a speech she was giving.
She did not engage with the audience , couldn’t wait to leave even though we had paid good money to listen to her.

And flogging her book !

Did you buy it Bridgeit?!

Absolutely not ?

Hearing was enough !

her abhorrent views

Most religious people fervently believe the doctrine, the messages in their holy books, don't they?

Most world religions are intolerant of homo sexually, and that intolerance today is shameful. AW is one Catholic. She voiced her opinion, which is daft, given she is in the public eye. That will haunt her - and hopefully give rise to the belief that she is wrong, because of the publicity it haas generated.

However, to use that against her as she made her maiden speech to the gathered EU politicians is rather lame.

No one will admit that what she said was true. The EU is NOT democratic.

So do carry on writing about how much you hate her. Whether you do or not doesn't disguise the fact that she caused huge and memorable waves with her EU speech. No one else dare speak the truth in Brussels, it seems.(For reasons of retaining their lucrative careers, maybe?)

Interesting times.

Don’t need to use that aspect against her, as I could never support NF or his Brexit party.
I would have more respect for him & his views if he didn’t take the money.

Her views on homosexuality, and shackling pregnant women, and her poor judgement likening membership of the EU to the horrors of slavery and on and on.

So absolutely I will keep writing about her. She is far more than her rabble rousing speech on the EU and to ignore or minimise her wider abhorrent views is not interesting in the slightest.

?SirChenjin

to ignore or minimise her wider abhorrent views is not interesting in the slightest

OK, carry on bashing her for her religious convictions.

That however cannot detract from the fact that she made a barnstorming, eccentric and memorable maiden speech listing the EU's failings.

She listed the failings of the EU in a very short space of time. Clever to generate so much publicity probably. You have to remember that many people, like me, who abhor homophobia, and would take AW to task over it, should we ever meet face to face - can cheer on an old woman ranting about the stinking, undemocratic EU that gobbles up £39, 000, 000, 000 of taxpayers money every year.

You can repeat your views on the EU all you like - that doesn’t detract from the fact that AW is a loathsome individual with revolting views that have no place in civilised society.

Day6, I would question the integrity & opinions of any Politician who held & vocalised such abhorrent beliefs .

Neither will Shouting ( ranting) achieve a good outcome, it just alienates the shouter from whomsoever it is one is trying to negotiate with.

The Brexit Party's only policy is "We're off" so I suppose AW didn't have a lot to work with.

bashing......some of you love that word. Nobody is bashing and there is nothing Christian about this woman.

Do you have gay children, grandchildren , friends????

No, why?

I thought her speech in the EU chamber was all about the EU, not any reference to gay people.