Again, another person who hasn't read my post properly. I'm talking about the petition somebody has made, with the intention of silencing her. I haven't said that she has been silenced - it's the idea I'm disagreeing with.

Good Post

So you don't want her venting her spleen over people she has never met but you are quite happy to vent your spleen over someone you have never met. Priceless.

And none of that answers my question of why she's a cat-lady type with hygiene issues.

Again, I find it humorous that you're defending Katie Hopkins, and then leveling words that could easily be used for her against someone else. You think that woman is rational and well-balanced? The woman who makes a career out hatred and trying to offend pretty much everybody?

I'm really bemused by how Linda's behavior pissed you off so much, yet Katie (far nastier imo) behavior is all fine and dandy.


I never said that.

But I don't see Katie as sharing "views". She doesn't offer actual insights, basis for anything she says, or even real opinions. She flings insults around, that's all. She loves to hurt people. So, yes, I think people wanting her to stop getting air time is "far less offensive" than the horrid things she says about people.

Possibly she realizes now that jeering at Scottish people for dying young within hours of a terrible accident that killed 10 people in a pub was a poor way of winning the hearts and minds of the people.

Furthermore, the no one has the RIGHT to appear on daytime tv spouting poisonous nonsense, any more than they have the RIGHT to play Romeo at the Old Vic. Hopkins has the same freedom to espouse her views as any of us: she may write to the papers, write a blog, tweet, send out emails, stand in the street with a megaphone. She is in absolutely no danger of being 'silenced', though it would be nice if she lost her voice.

Absolutely. She's a hideous caricature and the most appalling hypocrite. She claims to be a businesswoman but no one seems to have a bloody clue what her actual business is. Her claim to fame is being papped shagging someone else's husband in a field and being a complete gobshite.
She's as classless as Price and Katona but thinks, because she speaks with a plum in her mouth, that she's upmarket and posh when she's anything but.

She's just another attention seeking z lister but with a slightly different MO.

I disagree with the petition though. Let her sprout her bollox and let us judge her like she judges others

Like I said, Linda seems unhinged - in other words crazy. Hygiene problems and a love of cats often comes with the territory.

On the topic of Katie...

Perhaps you don't think she offers insights or real opinion, but I, and many others, think she does. I haven't disputed that the way she goes about sharing her views is often OTT, but like I said earlier, many of the points behind her flamboyant explanations are valid.

You have a point. I can feel no sympathy for Linda because she has shown herself to be such a nasty piece of work both this year on CBB and last year on BBBOTS.

Katie apologised for that mistimed comment.
I do not feel she wants to win anyones hearts and minds though.
Her thoughts and how she expresses them is getting her good pay at present.
She is just milking her bookability.

Like I typed before she will go a step too far soon no doubt and suffer the consequences.

Erm, not really. Seems you're basing your statements on horrid stereotypes. But I'll let you believe you know what you're talking about on the subject if you'd like!

I like how you brushed over my point of words very apt for Katie being used against Linda, though.


Many others? I think that's rather optimistic. But others, I won't deny.

OTT? Well, I'd say downright horrible, but each to their own. I'm genuinely amazed that you're angry about Linda's "nastiness" and brand Katie's as simply "OTT", but again, each to their own.

I don't think she ever raised valid points. Anybody who'll judge someone based on their name is clearly horribly ignorant from the get-go, and then there's the little thing of seemingly forgetting her own daughter has one of the names types she was ranting about (geographical locations).

She's also harped on about people with tattoos being less successful, and ignored evidence to the contrary.

But, considering you backed up your own statement about Linda's hygiene with approximately nothing, I should stop taking both and and Katie so seriously I think. Have a nice evening!

She's made the occasional valid point but any common sense she ever speaks is lost because she delivers her message with the grace and charm of a pissed elephant

It's like Daddy or Chips....'Linda or Katie'

What a choice....I'm proper spoiled...

Think I'll pass on both, I'm on a non pointless nobody diet.

That really is idiotically nasty, and doesn't look any better with a laughing face after it.


Not in this case. Roughly - I didn't transcribe it - this is what Hopkins saw fit to say about a housemate she had taken a dislike to:

"She's so incredibly boring! You just know that she probably smells of wee [pause for laughter] and she probably has hygeine issues, and if you saw her in Tescos she would be lost in the wine department and not knowing what she was doing there, and she would be saying "perhaps I'll go and work on the till" - no she wouldn't, because she's on benefits!" [Triumphant conclusion, waits for adoring laughter]. This seems to be based solely:

1. On the fact that Linda is over 50;
2. That she had a long and demanding career which collapsed when she was seriously ill with cancer.

It is a fine line that she is treading.

Oh, there was plenty of hypocrisy last night on here after the episode. People having the gall to brand Linda "nasty" and then saying horribly cruel things, as if it made them any better.

I think Linda was irritating last night, but I read FAR worse things said about her on here, it's just strange how some people claim to hate nastiness, and express how they hate nasty people by saying much worse things.


My point. Katie Hopkins insults. That's her career.

I must be ignorant then. Despite Katie contradicting herself, which I openly admit to, I think you can judge somebody's social background by their name. Typically, those with tacky names like Lee, Chelsea, Kaden etc are from council estates. Not always, but most of the time.

Also, you're blind if you don't think people with tattoos are generally less successful. Who wants to employ somebody with tattoos all over their body? It doesn't send out a professional image.

Yes, I'd agree that you are ignorant considering your issue with those names is that they're likely "from council estates". There is a stereotype surrounding them, but I grew up on a council estate and I certainly don't fit that "Shameless" mould. Not even close. It's such a horrible mentality to lump everyone from a council estate in as the same. Not only that, but it's very weak. It's easy to lump a whole bunch of people together, isn't it?

It's a shame that in 2013 this closed-minded attitude it still around in some people.

As for tattoos, I'm not talking about people who have them all over their bodies. There are plenty of successful people with tattoos, that is a fact.

And lots more who have always secretly wanted one...re David Dimbleby

If people didn't share Katie's view on tattoos, why would others "secretly" want one. It's just another case of people not saying what they really think.

Not even most of the time. The most popular names at present are:

1.Harry


2 Jack


3 Oliver


4 Charlie


5 Alfie


6 Jacob


7 Thomas


8 James


9 Riley


10 Ethan

1 Olivia


2 Lily


3 Sophie


4 Amelia


5 Emily


6 Jessica


7 Grace


8 Ava


9 Ruby


10 Mia

All of them more or less classless; there are outliers and typically non anglo-Saxon names, but on average there is a far greater overlap between the names of the rich and the names of the poor than people pretend. Lee, Chelsea and Kaden are not in the top 100.



I don't think people with tattoos are generally less successful. How have we moved to 'tattoos all over their body'?

I used to enjoy Katie on The Apprentice and appreciated her outspoken opinions but she has really degenerated into a troll now.

It is genuinely depressing that so many media outlets think - hey! I know someone who really doesn't care how hurtful and spiteful they are! Let's pay her!

Talking shit? What has left or right political ideology got anything to do with it really?

The fact she would describe Jim Davidson as "the best of British" should be enough for everyone to understand that her opinions are not to be taken seriously.

Those who live in council estates are a minority. It's almost as if you believe most of the UK is poor . I wasn't talking about the "rich". I was talking about the typical middle class and those who live in council estates.

Oh and to add, it seems likely that somebody who gets one tattoo will get another at some point. I've noticed it's a common thing among men to get "sleeves" of tattoos too. Vile!