Rantings of a silly Ber-cow

I am aware, that when I started this blog that it would be covering things of a sci-fi nature. But after reading a certain story in tonight's Evening Standard, I had to speak out.

Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker of our House of Commons is clearly bored. Not content with her husband presiding over Parliamentary sessions, she has taken to Twitter to air her views on absolutely everything. This week, failing retailers Carpetright, Thorntons and Jane Norman have come in for some spectacularly ill-timed and wincingly juvenile criticism, a la Bercow.

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• Of Thorntons: 'yuck tasting rip-off'
• Of Carpetright 'over-rated'
• Of Jane Norman: only sold 'clothes for skinny minies (sic)'

Not only can Bercow, an alumus of independent school Marlborough College, have trouble spelling (minies, anybody?), she also displays breathtaking insensitivity towards the thousands of staff who have lost their jobs as a result of store closures. Interesting to note that Habitat, also in administration doesn't get a mention.

Not content with commenting on economics, she also wades in with her thoughts on today's public sector strike:

Won't do kids any harm to see teachers stand up 4 their rights. Where were the complaints when they missed a day's school 4 royal wedding?

But of course, this isn't the first time Sally has chased the oxygen of publicity. All London-based commuters are grimly aware of the Standard's coup interview with the Speaker's wife in February, photographed for the front cover of the magazine wearing only a bed cover.

During said interview, Sally bared all (figuratively) all about the move to Westminster - and ill-advisedly, about their sex life. She later admitted her lack of judgement, albeit first blaming the newspaper, who she claimed had "done her up like a kipper".

I would have simply hated to have been her husband walking into Westminster on the following Monday to wry smiles and knowing nods. How he held his head up high during sessions is beyond me, especially as the missus has compared herself to Carla Bruni. She is an embarrassment. Perhaps the reason the Speaker sometimes looks so detached during sessions is because he is furtively checking Twitter for more of her updates. Either way, the next time he calls the House to 'Order', he should perhaps put his own house in order too.

News just in: In the last half hour, Sally has been threatened with legal action by Carpetright's lawyers over her comments on Twitter. Well done love.

Image courtesy of The Evening Standard