Is Sally a chav or just a silly little girl?

A thought popped into my mind a while ago that Sally Bercow is a chav. Now where did that come from I wondered; after all chavs are from the social underbelly that populates many of our towns and cities and Sally certainly is not that.

She comes from a comfortable middle class background and was educated at the top private school Marlborough College as were those other poor underclass children Princesses Eugenie and Kate Middleton, a good few MPs and BBC journalists, and of course Anthony Blunt the communist spy. So it is fair to say that she had a bit of a leg up in life courtesy of mum and dad. She must also have a brain as she was accepted for Oxford University where she spent a few terms enjoying the life of an undergraduate. Unfortunately she did not graduate though I guess she must have tried hard as she did make out that she had when she applied for a job with a City PR firm.

No, Sally is not your stereotypical chav. She wasn’t born on a council sink estate, she didn’t go to a failing comp, she didn’t leave school without qualifications, so why do I think of her as a chav? I think it is more to do with her mental attitude to life, rather than her actual circumstances.

Chavs seem to have this innate sense of entitlement, if they want it they will have it; no need to work for it just take it. A bit like Sally and her supposed degree which she never actually received but that did not stop her from intimating that she had one on her CV to get a job. I think that used to be called obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception; the normal chav version is called TWOCing or shoplifting.

Typically your average tabloid chav is also renowned for their consumption of alcohol, again this is an area where Sally has admittedly excelled though I suspect her tastes run more to Dom Perignon than White Lightning, and like most chavs ethanol is the source of many of their troubles. Your average chav is likely to pop down the nearest alley for a quick bit of rough and tumble or hoik up her top and show her tits to the CCTV cameras whilst Sally is probably more likely to jump up on stage with a male stripper at Oxford if rumours are to be believed.

Sally, you are no martyr to free speech and despite the above I don’t really think you are a chav though one might be forgiven for thinking that; in truth you are no more than a silly little girl.

EDIT

Well since the revelations in the Standard which seem to be all over the MSM today, The Daily Mail being a particularly thoroughly nasty job, I have seen nothing to make me change my mind about the utterly pointless stupid woman.

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.