"I've never liked the homeless"

[Lifeinagoldfishbowl]

Liz Jones again

she.is.a.twat

She is a twat and is getting paid for being one.

Does she do this on purpose? Must do.

I loved the bit where she says I never get to go on holiday

poor liz, never getting a holiday . let's hope david avoids becoming fodder for next week's column.

Be fair, folks.
She's adopting a persona and voicing all the things that, I would guess, some folks would think, and then discounting them.

And I have to say, I'm now thinking that volunteering in a homeless shelter would be a worthwhile thing to do one christmas.

I agree with cherryblossoms - give her a bit of a break (just a little bit)

I feel sorry for David though, just when he thought things couldn't get any worse....

RUN, David, RUN!!!

Would she have even done this if it wasn't for her DM column? Doubt it. She is a self-absorbed loon.

Cherry's right, for once Liz is doing something very positive - holding up DM readers' prejudices to the light and demolishing them.

She may often be a twonk but this column is A Good Thing.

that was a great article

"I have helped the homeless in India in the past on working holidays. They are sweet. They are grateful. They live in a country with no safety net. But homeless people in the West? Surely these people are mostly drug addicts, drunks and prostitutes. They like doing what they do, they won't want my help."

MORON!!!!

I thought as soon as I saw the thread title that it must be Liz Jones again. What's the betting that she will do a 'my life as a homeless person' article soon?

Surprised she didn't wear her poverty jodphurs and I feel very sorry for David if he is going to be her 2010 project.

Georgi, but the point is the article shows that her prejudices were a. wrong and b. daft.

Really? I just saw her replacing her previous prejudices with some even more ghastly faux Christian charity. Blerugh.

It's like a parody, isn't it.

Yeah, but bear in mind the readership.

They're smelly and scary?

You just know her house pongs to high heaven with all those animals she shacks up with.

holy f*. I have to laugh at the woman or I'd be sending her hate mail...

As far as I can tell the readership, especially of liz jones, is mainly us

She could reduce the irritant factor by not naming labels every five minutes.
"My BMW"
"My Michael Kors handbag"

She is way scarier than any homeless person IMO, and so screwed up that she could easily be a statistic but for a twist of fate.

[Easily imagines Liz as bag lady]

She is parodying herself and cosy middle class 'I'm all right, but I don't understand the reality of others lives' attitude.

She is pretending to be this stupid in the knowledge that many people actually are, and she is exaggeratng her neuroticism and pampered lifestyle for affect.

She obvioulsy is extremely neurotic nd pampered, but this is now her USP.

But she also wrote an article a day or so before, saying she understood what it must feel like to be homeless as she'd been kicked out of a London hotel in the snowy weather for not being able to pay up-front. What with being broke, due to having frittered spent her considerable income on cashmere fleeces for stray cats and bat refuges and stuff.... Life is tough out there for some people, ladies.
Fortunately, in case anyone's worried, her agent came along to bail her out, and she was, I presume, able to partake of the hotel valeting her BMW and serving her hot toddies in comfort.

She's a complete looner