Sally Bercow knows what she wants and how to get it

Going by the reactions over her entering the Celebrity Big Brother house, it seems, that trait doesn’t sit well with everyone!

As a mother I applaud women who can mange anything besides cooking and planning play dates with raising a young family. In Sally’s case she is managing it with raising £100,000 for her charity, making a name for herself while enjoying a little show biz glamour – surely that can’t be a bad thing!!

Both Bercows enjoy attention and both find ways of getting it. As for damaging the office of the Speaker – John Bercow does not need Sally’s help – he is doing a great job on his own thrashing the post. First, by ditching the Speaker’s attire – a great tradition and hundreds of years of history, not to mention a big tourist attraction – plus he never misses a chance to pick a fight with MPs in Chambers on cameras. To stir up controversy, he mostly picks them with Tory MPs – the party that put him in Parliament – where at times, these bouts are unnecessary and can come across as deliberate and calculated.

Mrs. Bercow on the other hand is a clever woman, who, as Iain Dale put’s it, lacks a pause button – that internal stop/start mechanism that tell most of us when to shut up and stops us from doing and saying certain things. Sally also seems to have a lot of drive and determination to be her own person, in addition to the love and understanding of a husband who despite disagreeing with some of what she does allows her the freedom to be who she wants to be. Surely that can’t all be a bad, can it!?

Most of those, in the public and the media who dislike her, mainly do because she is mouthy and hates with a passion all things traditional and Tory (although I think most her Tory bashing is satire, tongue in cheek and part of the attention game she plays so well).

Either way the woman is gutsy, fun to watch and knows what she wants but mostly knows how to get it – now be honest, how many would like a little of that?