Edwina Currie - is she 'too old' to be talking about sex?

GT is that she meant by women getting actively involved in politics Very involved and very active

Oh Pen - she did such a lot for women didn't she by her affair with JM ? Just fed into the whole role of women thing - is that she meant by women getting actively involved in politics? You must have heard her views on benefit claimants, the poor - we dont need people like her in politics- mske or female.

I met Edwina Currie at a WI meeting she was talking to. I am, as some will recall, not a Conservative supporter. However I did think her talk, about the need for more women to get actively involved in politics, was very good. She carefully avoided any party politics and talked about life for women in Westminster and the institutional sexism there. She came across as someone who enjoyed life to the full and as a 'cup half full' no-nonsense kind of person. I did not dislike her and I guess we would enjoy some great debates! Agree I would not want her as my MP though, prefer someone left of centre rather than right!

I have not seen her on IAACGMOOH but am fairly confident it is all set up /edited to attract controversy and therefore viewing figures.

FarNorth

Thank you

Sorry, Pogs, I see now it was Nonu.

The Bushtucker trials are horrible, imo.
I have walked in the Australian bush and was told that if I bit the bottom off the ants which have green bottoms I would get plenty of Vitamin C, but that is as far as I could go!
No witchetty grubs for me, thank you.

POGS Not getting cross with you, just clearing up a misunderstanding

ps we usually agree on a lot of things!

thanks, annodmini. I tried to find her official website and failed. Yes, there are grandchildren and great-grandchildren in her orbit.

I liked the statement by Julian Critchley MP (deceased 2000?) who said:
Fellow MP Julian Critchley said of her: “Edwina has a brass neck, a silver tongue and a golden pen.”

She hasn't changed. Beware the silver tongue and golden pen. (But I still admire her for her outspoken remarks.)

Her official web site says that she and her husband have six children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. As two of the children are hers, it seems likely that some of the GC might be.

Well, yes, all the remaining four have only been kept in by viewers voting for them!

I'll be watching out tonight for any "sleaze" moments, altho I may miss them as I switch over when the Tuckbush Trials are on - yuk yuk yuk vile vomit yuk - who wants that?

Also, will Edwina go? She's down to the last four. She's only been kept in by viewers voting for her (not me on this occasion).

True, I dont think Edwina's behaviour would come under the heading of sleaze, going by what you have written.

You know what, you are a little sausage ANA
{tchgrin]

Nonu, I think that should be up to you!

annodomini - Edwina's GC - don't know if she has any but I believe she has two daughters.

When she first came into public view for her lifestyle, I felt that it might be tough on her two daughters, and this has been my one reservation about Edwina living her private life in public. How have her daughters dealt with this?

One of her daughters has been shown on this programme, supporting her mum, don't know about the other one.

If she has any GC - well, honestly, in this day and age they will be dealing with loads of stuff that we never had to deal with openly (altho in private it was rife, for many of us, I am quite sure of that) porn texting etc.

Hopefully their parents, teachers and others will be able to guide them and protect them. Edwina might be involved in this, but might not, for her own reasons.

Surely her daughters are able to say to any children involved - "Hey, my mum is intelligent, sharp, strong, successful and worth listening to, but maybe a bit over the top at times".

Note, Edwina, as an ex-politician, picks her words very carefully, altho as an ex-politician she doesn't have to be politically correct all the time - bliss!

I hope she agrees with the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph voted most popular post-war poem BBC poll 1996 (you can Google it) :

"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
- - - And I shall spend my pension on brandy - - -
- - - But now we must - - - set a good example for the children - -
But maybe I ought to practice a little now? - - - "

FarNorth

It wasn't me!!!!!!

I fully understand what you mean and I don't think the tone of 'both' of your posts directed to me have been lost anybody either.

I have to say I don't know where all this has come from.

Ana, Ana, you have to put Far out of her misery, else she won"t sleep tonight, I know for sure I won"t, until this conundrum is resolved.

sleaze -^immoral, sordid, and corrupt behaviour or activities^

I don't think that's what's been happening, but that's just a personal take. Perhaps others have a lower sleaze threshold!

I think that there has been quite a lot Ana. But am now starting to doubt my own memory!

FarNorth, it wasn't POGS who said I thought feminism was all about what men can do, we can do better. We are equal if not even better.

That's what she didn't understand about your post of 12.38.

I don't think any of them is being 'sleazy'. Edwina and Mel are openly admiring of Jake's physique, that's all. There's been no 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink, what wouldn't I like to do to him' going on that I've heard!

I confess I haven't seen the programme but have seen reports in the papers. Mel seems to be a bit sleazy also as far as I can tell.

Pogs I'm not at all surprised if you disagree with my views but I am surprised that you claim not to understand them at all.

If I did feel inclined to exclaim 'phoar!' a younger man, what would put me right off would be the embarrassment of my GC. I wonder what Edwina's GC think about her behaviour in the jungle. I believe she does have some.

But Edwina has been saying a lot of things, and looking, and may be even touching if I remember correctly?
She is going a bit far for my taste.

As I said before, Edwina did not say "phoooar", she just said how good his body was. And how beautiful all young bodies are. Nothing sleazy about that.

Personally, altho I agree with her about Jake's body, I find that his tattoos detract from his lovely rippling and toned physique, and make him a complete turn off. >

I quite like I'm A Celebrity. [I am long over the bushtucker trials part though].
I like to see how people behave and interact.

I think that Edwina is bordering on being sleazy.

To put another angle to it[or perhaps not], what do FarNorth and others think about eg Mel saying "phwoar" about Jake quite a lot.
[She isnt married I dont think, and is about 20 years older than him?]