Katie Hopkins on dementia patients

What a pity that we will probably not be around to see how she copes with her own old age !

Flickety I have an aunt like yours. She is 88 and recently has been diagnosed with dementia. Delighted to see me but forgets I have been immediately I leave. Still love to visit her despite her reality being different. She enjoys a chat about the old days and is my last link with my beloved mother. Put her down? No way! Although she often cries and tells me she would like to go

Now that I am 64 I suppose I too am well overdue for extermination as I am sucking the younger generation dry. No........hang on......How would they cope without our (considerable) financial support and frequent childminding?

Lona On reflection, I think you're right because euthanasia (though some would say euthanasia is another word for murder) is intended to bring an end to intolerable pain and suffering. KH seemed to be saying that elderly people with dementia are basically a waste of space and a nuisance for their families and everybody else. So, yes, I suppose on that basis what she proposes can only be described as "murder".

As others have said, she makes her living by being controversial. She really isn't worth paying attention to. Starting off as a supposedly intelligent businesswoman ('the only woman who said no to Sir Alan!' ) she has exploited her natural arrogance and rudeness which were apparent on The Apprentice and found a niche in the popular media. She is making a lot of money but is morally bankrupt.

She's a right little madam. I saw her in a question time type programme and thought her a waste of time, her views were totally out of order and lent nothing to the debates in question except to raise hackles

39 and holding .....

The bit I read must have been out of date. she is rushing toward being geriatric, then, poor thing. How will she cope?

merlotgran

39 - really? . DD1 is older than her but looks 10 years younger!

She's actually 39, Elegran, as others have said - so even more overdue for the chop!

*Maggiemaybe" I was going to mention Logan's Run - but I thought it was at 40 that you were vaporised. (a long time since I saw it) I found out on Google that she is 35, so I was about to say that she only has five more years but it seems she is already overdue for the chop.

Do you remember Soylent Green? The euthanased old were put to good use in that, turned into a nutritious food supply. I suspect Katie would be too tough and bitter-tasting to use, though.

Love it, merlotgran!

With a daughter like that I'd be worried I might not make it to Christmas.

#keepcheckingyourforhead

I saw her today!she was in H&M in Exeter with a hideous, loud woman, in a Hyacinth Bucket outfit...it could only have been her Mum.Wish I had read this beforehand..it could have been an interesting conversation.

She's coming up to 40, elegran. Certainly old enough to know better than to fire off self-aggrandising soundbites without caring who she hurts in the process. Anybody remember Logan's Run? Once you hit your 30th birthday off you popped to be vaporised. Perhaps Katie would like to comment on 39 year olds "sucking the life from the young"?

I'm increasingly gobsmacked reading this thread.

She will be joining the multi-millionaire Chris Huhne in complaining that we Gnetters stole our children's future. (Except that he writes in the Guardian not the Sun.)

I am bemused by the fact that some old woman or man, having paid taxes all their lives, sit shivering in their home eking out their pension, having stolen the future of these rich, pompous mouth-pieces.

Presumably if we all start forgetting what we ate for lunch yesterday they can start the elimination programme. That's called genocide.

Eloethan Actually, I think the term for despatching people without their informed consent is called murder!

Actually, having looked myself it seems you can't read The Sun online any more without 'joining up', which I'm certainly not going to do. You'll just have to make do with the gist of Ms Hopkins' column, petallus!

'Katie'

petallus, just put The Sun in your search box. Or Kate Hopkins.

I think it would be interesting to start a list of what she will be expressing an opinion (controversial of course) on next. A couple of ideas from me
Obesity
Single Mothers
Bus passes for the retired
The Royal family
That is of course if she hasn't already commented I try not to follow her ranting too closely.

What is most disturbing is to read that she she wants 'do not resuscitate' on her forehead at 60, so presumably she thinks 60 is the age at which we should all be put down. She hasn't got that long to go then, has she?

Let us hope that some Gnetters will still be around, hale and hearty, to help her on her way when she reaches that great age.

I want to read the original article in the Sun. Anyone got a link?

Of course this horrible woman is being outrageous in order to continue raising her profile. I suppose what we should do is just ignore her, but traces of these sorts of views are trickling into the mainstream (people, not necessarily just elderly people, being described as "a burden" - and even describing themselves in that way).

Given that KH is still a relatively young woman, I wonder if she will be quite so willing, when she is older and perhaps declining in health, to write herself off in this way. And if she really wants to bring her children up to be so lacking in compassion and selfish, I pity them and anyone whose paths they cross.

Someone with signifcantly declining mental faculties would not have the capacity to agree to "assisted suicide" - I think the term for despatching people without their informed consent is "euthanasia".

I have seen this woman a few times on TV and I agree 100% with what annemac says above. She doesn't believe most of what she says herself. She says something ridiculous and lots of TV companies invite her on and pay her. It is what is known as a nice little earner.