Madame Speaker - Heroine?

Some people think that Madame Speaker is a bit of a gobby tart, whilst others fawn on her every word of which there are plenty. Her main claim to fame is that she is married to the Speaker of The House of Commons, apart from which she has done little of note. She has however used this platform to promote not only her political views but also to catapult her into the media spotlight. She has like other nonentities used her marriage to a high profile individual to give her celebrity, a bit like a political Colleen Rooney.

In her earlier years she benefitted from a good education at Marlborough College (with Sam Cam) and Keeble College Oxford where she had a brief flirtation with Conservative politics. She appears to have dropped out after a couple of years and moved politically to the left having stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in recent council elections.

Having failed to obtain her degree, and having failed to be elected to a council she has sought another outlet for her talents and of late taken up a bit of punditry, on one occasion alongside the Grand Dame of Blogging, Iain Dale. As a result of an unguarded comment on one of these shows she has been threatened with a Libel suit by somebody she upset and no doubt after a bit of wise advice gone running to her lawyer of choice who seems to be labelling her as a heroine.

Now this is where I have to take issue with a lawyer, something I am not normally afraid to do in my professional life but this lies outside my area of expertise so I move forward with a bit of trepidation.

Sally Bercow is not a heroine!

Joan of Arc was a heroine, Boudicca was a heroine, Odette Hallowes was a heroine, Mother Theresa was a heroine, Marie Curie was a heroine. These women were heroines because they showed courage and bravery in the face of death, all Silly Sally has done is to shoot her not insubstantial mouth off on television one too many times and then gone running to her lawyers at the first sign of trouble.

I cannot think of one conspicuously brave thing in this which merits the honorific of heroine, silly girl maybe or complete idiot but heroine; come off it.

For the record I do not think her comment constitutes a libel and she does not deserve to be dragged through the courts for it, though I doubt it will ever get that far. She is just another silly little girl with no discernible talent trying to make her way in life with a mouth that is conspicuously quicker than her brain.