Three blogs in one day !
I’ve just got home and heard the sadness of the death of Betty Boothroyd
She was a bloody one off
For those that don’t know she was the speaker of the House of Commons, MP , a Yorkshire woman and former tiller girl. That one sentence sums her up nicely .
A class act
Three in one ?
ReplyDeleteCrikey
She was a real trouper, a woman beyond her years and upbringing , I loved her as the speaker
ReplyDeleteNo nonsense and oh so funny
Thank you john for memorialising her
A hero
Karen in Margate
How good to see trouper correctly used - so many people use trooper …
ReplyDeleteI had to google tiller girl. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Very impressive woman. She really knew how to take command.
ReplyDeleteWasn't she wonderful x
ReplyDeleteNot one to suffer fools gladly.. thankfully.
ReplyDeleteWe need more like her!!
She put to shame those that followed her in that office, especially one J Bercow. I fear we will not see her like again any time soon given the current crop of useless wastes of space filling most seats in parliament.
ReplyDeleteShe was great! Definitely a class act.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing once that many MP's loved and respected her because she reminded them of their nanny or school matron. Those were the public schoolboys, of course! She certainly was a one-off. xx
ReplyDeleteRemarkable lady. (Is one allowed to say 'lady' these days?). She was the main reason why I started to dutifully watch PMQs on Weds, which I even now still do. Sorry to see her go but she certainly left her mark.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful Yorkshire lass and a complete one-off. Could be fierce, was always funny, with a real twinkle in her eye and a contagious laugh. A charismatic human being as well as politician; very much an endangered species!
ReplyDeleteBetty was fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI too was a great admirer. A Yorkshire woman through and through - as my farmer would say - not afraid to call a spade a shovel.
ReplyDeleteBetty was a wonderful woman, standing up for the underdog, controlling a chamber full of baying idiots without breaking sweat, accomplishing everything she set out to do, being a tiller girl (it was my childhood dream job), and showing us northerners in a wonderful light.
ReplyDeleteAnd.....she had fabulous hair!