Katie Hopkins – Speaking the unspeakable truth

Katie Hopkins – Speaking the unspeakable truth

By Paul Daley 3rd January 2015

In a sanitised world were to quote most political commentators

‘you can’t get a cigarette papers between the political parties’

it’s down to ‘rent-a-gob’ motor mouth columnists like Richard Littlejohn, former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie and the current ‘Enfant Terrible’ Katie Hopkins to –  ‘Tell it like it is’ with their versions of what is for many the uncomfortable truth.

Shooting from the lip these commentators have raised the hackles of not just the left and the right of the political spectrum, but the ‘right on’ brigade as well

But it is Katie Hopkins the former  ‘Apprentice’ contestant who has carved out her own particular niche as the face of ‘Fed up Britain’.

She touches nerves with her opinions. And her views are always frank, fearless, and controversial, delivered with a bluntness that would leave most politicians looking for a job.

One part Tory to two parts UKip.  Although not endorsing any one political party. Her agenda, is a mix of a return to the values of  the good old days, fused  with a modern day appraisal of the ‘sorry’ state of the Britain we live in today.

From immigration to the work shy, she espouses her opinions. She berates the benefits Britain culture. Her latest campaign is against the obese (in her opinion it’s a self inflicted condition that should neither be condoned or be excused.)

An example of her bluntness, was a recent radio phone- in, in which she berated  an overweight home shopping delivery driver accepting no excuses for his weight issues, and telling him she wouldn’t have employed him, as the public face ofhis company. To paraphrase, ‘who wants to see a fat man delivering food to your door, what message does that send out?

To make her point that obesity is a lifestyle choice. She deliberately gained four stone in weight and then lost it again, to show how, in her opinion it can be done.

But Hopkins is not just a one issue talk box.  She has also criticised mothers for giving their children exotic names. Caused outrage with her views on Peaches Geldof who died of a drug overdose. And lately she has enraged a nation after saying a  Scottish nurse infected with the Ebola virus shouldn’t be treated in England.

But does her vitriol, whilst jaw dropping express an under current of opinion that many right wing politicians may agree with but are afraid to say.

The UKip  leader Nigel Farage comes closest to expressing Hopkins views in a political forum. Whilst the other party leaders, fearing ‘real issues’ confrontation try to avoid controversy. Farage’s ”blokey’ man down the pub persona is the agenda that is winning most support.

The ingrained policies of the left and the right in politics are struggling to come to terms with a straight talking man ( or woman) in the street approach to the countries perceived problems.

Katie Hopkins and her ilk are now setting the agenda with their forthright views, and it’s how politicians such as Farage are responding to those issues that are shaping the political arguments.

So does Katie Hopkins have her own agenda? Or is she just, as some might say ‘a gobby bird’ who likes to speak her mind. She might argue that she’s tapping into the inner voice in all of us.

Hopkins now a tabloid columnist and an active user of social media. She generates the same sort of reaction to her opinions  as any leading politician. Loved or loathed she has established herself as a ‘voice’ of middle class Britain, and it’s a role she has embraced.

She described herself as; ‘A conduit for the truth’ her critics are not so generous calling her an ‘insufferable snob’ and a ‘lowlife superbitch’

whatever your opinion of her, their can be no doubt that Katie Hopkins is a voice switched on to the under current of modern day Britain, and more and more people are listening in.