In fact I have fantastic friends from all walks of life, including nurses and carers, Heath. Some friends are extremely wealthy and some extremely poor. My own grandmother was poor — she brought my mother up on her own after my grandfather died of cancer when mum was only 15. A farm labourer, she had little money, never owned a house, never owned a fridge and didn’t even have hot running water right up to the day she died, which wasn’t that long ago. She was my inspiration. I loved her to bits and we were incredibly close.
The greatest thing my grandmother taught me was to respect other people and their views, no matter who they are. Rich, poor, black, white, famous, nobody. The trouble with this board is that anyone who supports the Tories is immediately labelled. Racist, shady, greedy, selfish, scum, you name it. It couldn’t be further from the truth.
