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Ok, I am offically DONE with Mary Portas!

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JosieRosie · 11/10/2011 10:48

I'm a dunderhead and can't do hyperlinks (sorry) but she's quoted in the Daily Mail (even sorrier!) today, discussing the female members of the Cabinet:

Miss Portas told the new issue of Heat magazine: 'I mean, what an ugly bunch. I could not look at them. They do dress up for my meetings, but I just want to go, "Please no, not that necklace, not that skirt".'

On behalf of women everywhere, THANKS A BUNCH MARY! For heaven's sake, don't waste your time by actually listening to what any of these women are saying, much better to spend time appraising their wardrobes. It's bad enough that you were clutching your pearls in shock at being confronted with a SIZE FOURTEEN women's body on your program last week Shock but now this...... Ugh, just ugh.......

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NotJustClassic · 11/10/2011 13:22

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levantine · 11/10/2011 13:19

I couldn't find anything on the Private Eye site - do tell!

malinois · 11/10/2011 11:31

Seems a bit of a career-limiting move to me. And as for "They do dress up for my meetings..." - talk about self-aggrandisment! I suspect she won't be invited to any more meetings with cabinet ministers (if she ever was.)

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JosieRosie · 11/10/2011 11:23

Private Eye readers in this house too NJC Grin

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JosieRosie · 11/10/2011 11:09

'She sounds like a total dimwit'
You're completely right megapixels, she does Smile

I know she's supposed to be a retail genius and all, but I found when watching her programs, that not many of the ideas seem to come from her. She seems to crumble a bit when challenged and either shouts over people or patronises the hell out of them to turn the whole thing into a joke. I think she's fabulous in some ways but I always got the feeling of a downright nasty undercurrent beneath it all.

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levantine · 11/10/2011 10:59

Hmm. This is not good.

She must be very stoopid because it rather undermines her USP too doesn't it

megapixels · 11/10/2011 10:54

I've just seen it on MSN News and I was really shocked. She wants to infuse sex and glamour into the female cabinet members Hmm. She sounds like a total dimwit.

And accusing them of being ugly, she must think she's such a looker Grin.

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