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Margaret Hodge

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Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, Lady Hodge, DBE, MP (née Oppenheimer; born 8 September 1944) is a Blairite Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994. She was created Minister for Children in 2003 before becoming Minister of State for Culture and Tourism in 2005. On 9 June 2010 she was elected Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. Born Margaret Eve Oppenheimer, she was known as Margaret Eve Watson from 1968 to 1978. She was styled Lady Hodge after her second husband, High Court Judge Sir Henry Hodge, was knighted in 2004, until her appointment as DBE in 2015 when she became Dame Margaret Hodge.

Since at least 1995 she has been trying to derail Jeremy Corbyn's career in politics. Few outside Islington noticed this very much, until Jeremy Corbyn became Leader of the Opposition in 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. In 2013, he was awarded the Gandhi International Peace Award for his "consistent efforts over a 30-year parliamentary career to uphold the Gandhian values of social justice and non‐violence." In December 2017 he was awarded the Seán MacBride Peace Prize "for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace". Jeremy Corbyn was a campaigner against apartheid in South Africa, serving on the National Executive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and was arrested in 1984 while demonstrating outside South Africa House.

Her most famous statement was when she screamed, “You're a fucking antisemite and a racist!” at Jeremy Corbyn. This is typical of how she treats the Leader of the Labour Party and other people. Her foul mouthed outbursts and crass behaviour had led to her Parliamentray nickname, "Fuming Maniac" from the 1995 debate to the present.

Margaret Hodge has provided no evidence for her assertion that Jeremy Corbyn is "a fucking antisemite and a racist!" She does not like evidence, think of Demetrius Panton and his evidence, Liz Davies and her evidence, child sex scandals, Jimmy Saville, BBC influence, letters, television interviews, Tony Blair, tax affairs, Stemcor, her voting record and so much else. Evidence is something Margaret Hodge considers irrelevant. Blind hatred is all she knows.

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