This is a quote from the following interview - http://www.fwi.co.uk/poultry/edwina-...lla-crisis.htm

"Was there really a problem with eggs? Wasn’t it more poor catering conditions that allowed minimal contamination levels to escalate into something much bigger?

There really was a problem with eggs. The hens’ oviducts had become contaminated with a new variant of salmonella, which did not kill the birds, but showed up in infected eggs, and caused a particularly virulent food poisoning in humans.

It resulted from laying stocks being fed “protein” that turned out to be ground-up dead chickens.

Similar insane feeding practices led to BSE in cattle in the 1980s and 90s. The best catering conditions in the world don’t eradicate the danger of raw or undercooked egg in these conditions. This is still true for chickenmeat, of course.


Okay, she did not always come over very well in the jungle but she did clean up the egg industry.

Edwina Currie, when an MP, was indeed outspoken. She has always, courted publicity no matter how inappropriate the means. She has just continued with that trait in the jungle. If perving over young men could get her noticed, get her headlines, keep her in the jungle - she was happy to do it.
I have a bias, about Edwina Currie ? Correct. I don't admire her at all. . I'm ignorant ? Of what ? Her habit of being ' outspoken' to the point of presenting her case in such a way that it failed, each time, due to, the manner in which she presented it ?
If she was concerned about bad diet, why describe Northeners as ' ignorant'? Why tell pensioners the obvious, " Wrap up warm", as if they wouldn't have thought of it ? How insulting.
She thinks that religion is nonsense ? Yet another example of dismissing many members of the public as if they are simple minded and far below her, intellectually. It seems to be her Achilles heel. Knowing that one is intelligent is not, an excuse to feel superior to the point of speaking to others in a patronising and insulting manner. The habit of needing to be like that or being oblivious that one is, doing it and it's not working in terms of getting things done, as a politician, seems arrogant, to me. It feeds the ego but isn't helping the electorate.
Watching Edwina ' talking to herself' in the jungle about Kendra was to me another example of Edwina's habit of being unable to be objective enough to focus on what she should, be doing. It was indeed, ' all about Kendra' ie she was too self focused but I think that applies in a less obvious way to Edwina, too. What Edwina has always been most successful at is getting people to notice Edwina.

It's just like this, Edwina took agin Kendra with such resentment as Kendra was a strong personality who pushed the old bag into the background and unsurprisingly she wasn't happy with it. That is the gist of it anyhow.

Also hilarious how Edwina couldn't stop talking about Kendra when she was released even to the point her daughter was compelled to comment upon the fact.
That proves how much Kendra got under her skin if nothing else.

Edwina has got away for years and years using the same slippery underhanded methods of winding people up and putting them down in a subtle manner and most of the time no doubt she gets away with it. It was good to see someone challenge her outright and prick her big balloon head.
Sometimes us plebs do bite back lol.

Also, in trying to undermine Kendra and Mel, ( Vicky was no competition ), Edwina was pushing to be the dominant female in the camp but not in an entirely direct, straightforward way. In addition to that, she played up to the males she thought were dominant - first Jimmy, whose groin she massaged vigourously , then Jake, who she kept flattering and speaking with as if he was a potential lover.

I don't see what that has to do with feminism or being a role model. It looks more like trying to be important via male attention and by being associated with a man who might be successful, plus linking to men on some sort of sexual, basis.

Edwina has an affair with John Major for four years. I don't think his wife Norma has ever spoken publicly about how she felt about that nor about Edwina's book revelations concerning her husband and his pants.

Edwina has never been a role model for anyone and she certainly was no feminist. Feminism, in my book, is women being equal to men. Edwina thought she was better than other women never mind the men.

I got a weeks ban for saying how much I despise the Currie woman. IAC is ok but part of watching is that it is nice to say somewhere how much you dislike hypocrites that appear on the show.

The worst thing though is the hypocrites that bother to press alert because they don't like your opinion.

I found it much more interesting posting on the House of Commons website.

Sorry, although a Member of Parliament, she was as you say an Under Secretary of State For Health, working for the Department of Health, under Mrs Thatcher from September 1986 to December 1988.

You are quite right - you are biased - and your particular comment that I have highlighted is frankly, ludicrous. Indeed a few more things in the post has more than a little two and two coming up to five.

Not mentioning though that Jake was little more than a sex-pest with virtually all the young women - and the fact that they did not particularly complain does not make it good watching.