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Originally Posted by sampvt

I don't think Hoppo speaks the truth all the time, but she does say what she thinks all the time.

Major difference and she would be the first one to agree that her views are sometimes indigestible, but at the end of the day, they are her words, opinions, beliefs and in the main, her way to carve a living out of modern day events that she feels strongly about. So good on her.

I can't agree, because far from "saying what she thinks all of the time", a lot of the time she says only what she thinks will score her 'brownie points' with the viewing public. Her OTT 'soliloquies' in the diary room and in the house when she was dramatically harping on about; her "public" was worthy of Shakespeare and ten times as fictitious.

Hopkins is a very quick thinker and if you watch her carefully, you can almost sense that calculating brain behind her eyes, whirring away as she is plotting in a nano-second what she is going to say next, and how she is going to react to a given situation.

Nothing about her is natural and she has no 'reflex' actions, because all is premeditated - hyper quickly I'll allow, but premeditated none the less.

Even the more controversial outbursts which secured her notoriety and fame, were precisely calculated to achieve notoriety and fame, and I do not believe that she genuinely believes even half of what she spouts - which makes her anything but honest in my book.

Yes - there is some truth in a lot of what she says, but that does not mean that she herself is 'truthful', because given her targets; claimants, the unemployed, the uneducated etc; and given her 'scatter gun' methodology, she is as bound to be correct in some of her claims as a monkey endlessly randomly pounding a typewriter is of forming some words.

She is fake, calculating, and abhorrent. Just my opinion.