[loomy]

I'll admit I have never really warmed to Freddie but before this week I could have accepted if he won. I thought he was the 'best of a bad bunch', I repsected his eccentricity and I also thought he did have a good solid set of morals that he abided by. I believed him when he said he would stand up for what's right even when others were too afraid to do so.

I think it's widely been accepted that Bea is vile piece of work; imo worse than Lisa. Lisa is loud and angry but she's not really sneaky, she's not clever enough to be really manipulative. Freddie fans say that it's not his fault - he's being led on by Bea but he is responsible for his own actions. He has seen how she has behaved. He wasn't happy about the Noirin-Siavash situation but before Bea instigated the insane hatred towards Noirin and Issac he was prepared to be 'cool' with them. Instead he just followed on like a sheep, ganging up on Noirin. He agreed that she should be socially isolated. He agreed to go to the diary room knowing full well that the intentions behind it weren't noble or a simple attempt to support Marcus. Kris was destroyed for being Lisa's sheepish henchman but for some reason Freddie remains favourite on this board. How he can stand by Bea is beyond me. What happened to standing up for what's right.

Lisenting to him agreeing with Bea as she slated Lisa for being on benefits was also bad. If he wants a career in politics he's going to have to be a lot more diplomatic and willing to see things from a different angle. It showed well and truly that people with a priviledged upbringing like Bea and Freddie can never truly understand what it's like to struggle for money and in that sense can never really help them. Freddie himself is 'scrounging' just off his parents because he was lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

I cannot comprehend how Freddie and Siavash - who is a mumbling idiot who dumped and humiliated his gf on national tv all for some silly little fantasy he had planned out with Noirin - are favourites on this board.