THEY SAY that if you’re going to tell a lie, then it might as well be a big one. And boy, does Hodge tell lies. She tells absolute whoppers! In fact, she tells so many lies that we’re going to have to look at them one at a time.
At the very beginning of Laura Fairrie’s film The Battle for Barking (1) Hodge is asked why Nick Griffin, the British National Party leader, is standing against her. She answers “Because he hates women, he hates Jews and he hates immigrants and I’m all of them.”
She’s allowed to make this fantastic claim without backing it up. At no time does she offer any evidence for such a sweeping statement. The film doesn’t show Mr. Griffin saying anything remotely like this.
Hodge’s claim that Nick Griffin “hates women” is surprising. As far as we’re aware, he’s been happily married to his wife Jackie for around 25 years. Jackie happens to be a woman. He is also a father of four. Three of his children are daughters – all of whom happen to be women!
If he “hates women” so much he has a funny way of showing it!
Seriously, however, as far as we’re aware, Mr. Griffin didn’t say – or do – anything during the last General Election that indicated that he hated women. Indeed, we can’t recall the subject of women per se appearing in any of his election leaflets, posters or political broadcasts. Can you?
If women were mentioned, it probably would have been in relation to Mr. Griffin’s position on militant Islam.
It’s well known that he is opposed to the ‘Islamification’ of Britain. It’s our understanding that Mr. Griffin feels that militant Islam treats women as second-class citizens. But this would put him in the position of supporting women – and not hating them!
We at All about Margaret Hodge and the Barking and Dagenham Sentinel are a little old-fashioned. We believe that web-sites, publications and interviews should try to raise standards of debate and provide detailed information, not just soundbites.
We’re about telling the truth. We seek to inform and let people make up their own mind. Hodge, on the other hand, seems to rely on lies and misinformation.
(1) http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-battle-for-barking/4od#3150944
