Widdy on telly.....cringe

""""But yesterday Anne Widdecombe, prisons minister, defended the shackling policy, which has caused a furore since prison inspectors walked out of Holloway prison in disgust at "over-zealous" security and appalling conditions. She said it was better for the women to attend hospital. """

Widdecombe, sorry. Widdicombe is the comedian - the professional one.

Of course it’s fair that the pension age was equalised, quizqueen. Nobody would dispute that. What is unfair is the way it was implemented with women close to retirement age losing 6 or 7 years. Other countries have managed a fair and gradual change to the pension age with every woman losing around 18 months. No other country has hit a relatively small group of women in this way.

It has caused real hardship to many, some of whom I have met on the WASPI demos, and it’s an insult to have someone in Widdicombe’s privileged position sneering at them.

annodomini no , this thread is open to all ,even those who try to tell others to stop posting their opinions, such as you.

Annie, if she didn't support the shackling of women in labour, why did she then have to apologise to the House of Commons?

Oh, give it a rest!

So you judge everyone ab against JC? That’s ridiculous. As for ‘honest’ are you actually saying thar however reprehensible people’s views are, they are not to be criticised as long as they’re honest? Really? And she supported shackling during labour - you are clearly reading a different article.

Ann is a woman who is not afraid to speak her mind and tell the truth but that seems to be unpopular nowadays, everyone wants things to be sugar-coated in case it offends them. Although I too lost out on state pension because of the age rise, I've always thought it was unfair for men to have to work longer. Woman can't expect equality and then complain when they get it!

She is honest, isn’t a ‘people pleaser’ , has she ever done a Corbyn , ‘i was there but I don’t know if I was involved’ , honouring terrorists !

Read it maryeliza you are wrong

I can only admire her for changing Political Parties as she has been a life long Conservative. I voted Leave & will be voting for Widdy in the EU Elections (she is standing in my Constituancy I believe). I'm fed up of the mess TM & Parliament is making of Brexit. I don't always agree with her but I like her honesty is there such a thing as an honest politician . I read her column in the DE, she speaks a lot of sense, many of you won't agree

Right now I'm off to put my tin hat & flak jacket on & hunker down behind barricades

I can’t feel sorry for women like her who supported women in labour being shackled and who would deny all females even raped children access to abortion. Whatever personal unhappinesses she may or may not have experienced , I’m never going to feel sorry for someone like her who would willingly impose suffering on others. I didn’t know about the WASPI comments but it’s all part of her misogyny isn’t it?

She is a true misogynist - she hates women as examples on here prove. She is virulently and pathologically anti abortion. I sometimes think she is mad as well as bad

She's a one-off
Well, thank goodness for small mercies .

I like old Ann Widdecombe.

Flipping AW she drives me potty, doesn’t live in the real world.

I find her persona somewhat unnattractive but lately I've been trying to rise above that and listen to her. She seems to me highly intelligent and honest. I do believe moving her party allegiance must have been very difficult after all these years. It is hard to hear her point of view from beginning to end because others repeatedly shout her down so rudely. I guess I'm interested in her because my party allegiance has disappeared too. Mostly by shame and frustration. I did watch her bagging the pen. Seems to me she did it openly and without any furtiveness. I have done the same at meetings myself in the past. O

I saw her interviewed by Louis Theroux and she certainly kept him in his place (and he's a very mild-mannered man)
I had to laugh when he asked if he could see her bedroom and she definitely told him that 'upstairs is out of bounds, you are not to go upstairs'. When he asked if there were secrets upstairs, she batted all those enquiries out of the park in that querilous tone of voice we all know.
She's a one off.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chaining-women-backed-1323238.html%3famp

Read this ab and then tell me I’m wrong again. FFS

I'm a WASPI woman and have had to work an extra six years because of this sneaky change to the retirement age. Still got two years to go as well. However there's a campaign fighting for our rights headed by Michael Mansfield (human rights lawyer) which goes before the courts soon. I'm sure none of this affected Anne Widdicombe with her privileged life style. On the other hand as I like to be fair she's never had a husband or children so I feel sorry for her in that respect.

Loathsome woman in every way - she and Farage are a match made in heaven

She did say women prisoners should be shackled when giving birth.

/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chaining-women-backed-1323238.html

Annie, she may not have said it, but she allowed women in ;labour to be shackled when she was prisons minister.

As prisons minister she had to apologise to the Commons for having permitted the shackling of female prisoners while in labour.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/18/conservatives.uk2

I went to one of her one-woman shows and she was fantastic. Very sharp, and quick witted.

I went off the woman when she was saying that women are making a fuss about nothing in regard to the change in retirement age which is making ladies lose thousands of pounds. I believe that m.p's still get theirs at 60!!!

She did not say women should be shackled when giving birth