Polly Toynbee seeking planning permission for a conservatory on her new £1.5 million home but planning application hasn't gone in under the name we know her by.....

[moondog]

Oh no,no,no.

It's under the name of Mary Jenkins.

That's the Mary Jenkins who had her children privately educated and is doing everything she can to thwart free schools.

One rule for the masses, another for her eh?

(Story in Mandrake in The Daily Telegraph today. Can't find online.)

A slightly hypocritical journo bending the rules to suit? The very thought....

oooh! I just love it when that sanctimonious baggage is caught out! She was caught out on question time last year, when someone commented on her villa in Tuscany...!

How is this politics exactly?
Link is here. Google was my friend.

I don't understand the premise of the OP. So PT uses private education and dislikes Free Schools - why is the fact she uses an alternative (valid) name in a planning application relevant to anything at all?
Tbh, any enemy of Toby Young is a friend of mine.

Ah.
You vet the Politics threads now do you, Hassled?

I vet all threads for filing accuracy. If I see a "What would you do?" thread in AIBU rather than the WWYD topic I hyperventilate. I patrol the virtual corridors of MN looking for topic miscreants on a regular basis.

I still don't understand the premise of the OP.

moondog
you're at it again
Please come back and play nicely in education where I am sure some newbie Reception mummy is trying to teach her DC to read in contravention of all phonics teaching
You are much nicer over there

Big fucking deal.

my fav polly toynbee article was when she lived as a minimum wage earner for a week and the most defining moment for her was when Peter Mandelson walked past and didn't recognise her 'sob'. ffs i actually think liz jones has more credibility and self awareness

Yes I read that.
Her sense of outrage was hilarious.

she is the living embodiment of all that is wrong with the baby boomer generation

Yes well according to that piece Mary is her given name and Jenkins the name of her late husband - therefore in fact her name so why shouldn't she use it for whatever she likes. Many professional women do exactly the same. As massive revelations go this is pathetic.

Far more relevant is the Guardian's ginormous tax avoidance, Polly Toynbee's hypocrisy, her colossal carbon footprint flying to her Tuscan villa, etc.

The Guardian is worse than garbage. Even throwing it away is too good for it. The best thing you can do with a copy is to burn it. If the Government would clamp down on GMG tax avoidance, just like the Guardian say they should to other, non-Guardian-related, companies, and cut all public-sector advertising to them, then Rusbridger, Toynbee, Ashley and all the other Guardian fat cats will get what they have always deserved.

I truly detest the Guardian, and Polly Toynbee most of all amongst its writers. But her using her maiden name for a planning application isn't amongst the legion reasons driving my hatred.

What beanlet said

This is the politics of envy. This woman has earned her money. Surely socialists like moondog and finger should leave her alone.

Socialist?
Me?
Is that a joke???

You obviously envy this woman's wealth.

Uh? so has she said no one else is allowed a conservatory? and by the way, free schools are not the same as private schools.

I thought her girls went to Camden School for Girls?

Ahahaha! That must be galling, eh moondog?

Play the ball, not the man. Toynbee has no power - she's a bloody columnist.

She writes a lot of good sense too. Pity she's so rich. [tongue in cheek icon]
But - what she writes still makes sense.

Still howling at the moon, dog I see. Yes you socialists resent anyone having a bit of moolah dontcha? The politics of envy indeed.

LFN, the Guardian is the best newspaper in the UK followed by the Indy.

The Daily Hate Mail is however toilet paper that comes pre filled with shit as well as bile and spite.

As for the sainted Polly, she is a columnist par excellence who shows up Cameron's cable of scum government for the self seeking, nasty vile filth that they are.

Ooh, here she comes-the pantomime villain!

ROFL at calling moondog a socialist.

I don't read the Guardian, so don;t know much about her. Not being in favour of free schools isn't entirely inconsistent with using independent schools I think. Has she said anything about independent education?