Lady Hodge, Dame Margaret, Baroness Hodge, is now, apparently, a neoliberal.
Now, circumstances have changed. Hodge, now a member of the House of Lords, seems to talk more about Zionist sentiment than anything else these days, despite which fact she is in line to become head of Ofcom, which oversees TV, radio, video-on-demand network broadcasting, broadband, mobile and postal services in the UK. Few people seem less suited to head such an organisation than Hodge, in my opinion, given the very apparent biases that she has revealed in her work as an MP, where she unjustly vilified Jeremy Corbyn, attacked the left consistently, and has acted in a pro-Zionist fashion, which will inevitably alienate some.
So:
Hodge was born on 8 September 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Jewish refugee parents[5][6] Hans Oppenheimer, and his wife Lisbeth (née Hollitscher).[5] Hans Oppenheimer left Stuttgart in Germany during the 1930s to join his uncle’s metals business based in Cairo and Alexandria, where he met fellow émigrée, Austrian-born Lisbeth Hollitscher. Married in 1936, Hans and Lisbeth had five children.
At the outset of World War II, the couple and their eldest daughter were rendered stateless, effectively stranded in the Kingdom of Egypt for the duration of the War. They decided to leave Egypt in 1948, concerned that antisemitism had increased in the Middle East during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The family moved to Orpington, Kent (present-day Greater London),
Can’t imagine, at all, why someone of that background might think Israel is a pretty good idea.
BTW, yes, I have met her, thinkk she’s vile, have often enough said she’s been vilely hypocritical to my mind on taxation issues and so on.
But no, we cannot allow Spud to get away with that one now, can we?
Brittan is the man who appeared in front of Hodge in Parliament, representing Google. Not only does his past record on tax exclude him from consideration, in my opinion, but we also have to ask how it is that the stars have so aligned that, a decade or so on, these two appear to be destined to head major broadcasting organisations in the UK.
And who runs the BBC is now supposed to be subject to Spud’s ideas on tax?
Considering there seems to be a problem with care homes putting someone who once libelled an abuse victim in charge of ofcom seems a bad idea.
The Guardian profile: Margaret Hodge | Children | The Guardian
I don’t care about her being Jewish btw.
In general terms I might prefer a “heritage” Briton who was uninterested in special pleading about … oh, everywhere. Bugger Russia, China, the USA, Israel, Pakistan, Iran, Mauritius …
But I wouldn’t rule someone out just because they are Jewish. What a nasty thought. I would rule them out if they were a vile person, though. Which fits Hodge.
Please attend to defending British ideas relevant to a broadcaster e.g. freedom of speech, disinterested reporting … (At the Beeb, for example? That would be the day, eh?)
Commie dick’s friends have perverted government such that Ofcom has sway over content. Content is none of the f*&^ing government’s business. Now, someone with different opinions may take control of government interference.
Hoisted . . . .
I mean this has to be a case of ‘stopped clock’ accuracy. Hodge would be a catastrophic appointment, albeit not for her stance on Israel but for her activities related to Care homes as well as being a part of the Labour Party, which I think going forward will need to exclude people from holding any sort of role in the government of the UK.
He called her corrupt. Saying you found her vile is opinion, personal opinion. Calling her hypocritical is also opinion, probably justified. Even his references to her “pro-Zionist” opinions could be described as opinion, albeit disgusting opinion. Calling her corrupt: go on, justify it!
Maybe we’ll see him in court doing that. He could continue his legal education. Although whether Hodge would bother about suing the penniless..
It occurs. Presumably La Hodge is on X? Would any of you X users like to bring it to her attention & ask her opinion? Some helpful retweating?
Can’t imagine, at all, why someone of that background might think Israel is a pretty good idea.
Someone with that background who thought Israel a pretty good idea would have been in Israel in ’48. Along with a lot of other Jews overcame considerable obstacles to get there. That would be the opinion of many Sabra.
Born in 1944? That’s the same age as my mother, and she’s in a care home for the doolally. WTF’s she doing in government?
How long before the tater is saying she is unsuitable for the post because she is a rootless cosmopolitan?
https://www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2a68rfy5bw2ycq17lrqv0/richard-murphy
Would that have been one of “the very apparent biases that she has revealed in her work as an MP”?