Political wives - bitchy article by Edwina Currie

Makes you wonder what John Major saw in her, doesn't it? Or any other man, for that matter.

Edwina Currie is an embittered woman and nasty individual. Her comments regarding people who go to Food Banks and Currie's opinions on the girl called Jack who wrote a blog about feeding her and her son on £10 per week are breathtaking in their sheer nastiness and vitriol. She was seen picking through the donations at the food banks, picking up bags of pasta and noodles and sneering about the poor quality. Little understanding of the fact that when you have only got a couple of pounds left on your electric card you can't afford anything better than a quick boil pasta. It says it all that she is shunned by the Tories, even they think she is beyond belief in her ignorance. You may have noticed that I dont like Edwina Currie....

Edwina doesn't mention Norma Major when pontificating about the wives of philandering politicians. Wise of her!

Jayh, I suspect the answer to your question as to what makes Edwina think she can tell other woman how to behave and what choices to make is answered in your 1st sentence when you described her as arrogant.
She's a loathsome, opinionated, narcisistic individual who only really cares about herself. (that's my considered, balanced and imo fair opinion)

A very stupid article indeed.It is bitchy, mean spirited and I am astonished by Currie's arrogance. What makes her think she can tell other women how to behave and what choices to make?

I think it's a stupid article. Using that rationale, anyone who isn't an MP or doesn't plan to become one should not express an opinion. That would make BBC's Question Time even more dull than it already is.

I don't value Edwina Currie's opinions anyway. Since the time when, out of a fit of pique, she decided to announce she'd previously had an affair with Major, I think she has become increasingly nasty, particularly towards women.

I don't think the article is bitchy. Only the bit where she describes Nick Clegg as "poor, dull Nick Clegg". For the rest, she has a point.

Gillybob, little has changed really the little woman and the ambitious breadwinner / protector

That's how I understood you to mean it Anniebach

Yes Welshwife it was during Thatchers years, my reference to the 1950's was the way unmarried mothers were dismissed then, one heard so often - she got herself pregnant or she has got herself into trouble

I think it was much later than the 50s Annie it was during Maggies time as he was in her cabinet I think.

Oops, took so long to download that we have x'd!

AB She was Sara Keays not Parkinson, although she would liked to have been Parkinson!

Yes , I meant Sarah Keays , seems she got herself pregnant , very 1950's

On this occasion perhaps she is right.

Not about Sara Keays though. I assume that's who you meant Anniebach?

Perhaps Cecil should have kept it in his trousers !

Edwina accused Sarah Parkinson of ruining the career of Cecil Parkinson because she had his baby !

As someone who slept with another woman's husband, E Currie needs to keep her nasty comments and stupid opinions to herself. She is vile.