Fiona Mactaggart MP

[A Rebel and a Saint]

in the post this morning i recieved a newsletter from fiona mactaggart sent out to young people. in this newsletter is a small article on slough town:

"Fiona regularly supports local groups and organisations. 'Sport helps build our community spirit and i am proud to support our local football team Slough Town.' Fiona has been active in the clubs battle to stop the coucil breaking its promise to find them a new ground."

There is then a picture of her presenting Alex Haddow with his FA cup player of the round award.

 

i was wondering, seeing as you guys know more about everything than i do, is this really true or is it just a political plan to get more votes?

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

It is true she was at either the walsall or yeading FAC game and stood behind the goal with Rob Anderson.

 

After the game I emailed her thanking her for her support and she responded saying that she enjoyed the game and would keep trying to help the club.

 

Therefore her words are genuine

[BFR]

In addition, Fiona attended the launch evening of the Supporters Trust last year. However, whilst it is pleasing to read that she and Labour are all for supporting sport in the community, including the football club, I think we all need to be wary of being used by politics. We've already suffered that in the last local elections and the aftermath. I'd hoped that we would not get dragged into things again with the general election.

[Ted]

I would like to think that politicians of all persuasions backed the football club. Unfortunately that is not the case. Omce the election campaign starts, it might well be worth raising this issue with other candidates. The will be 2 local MP's to question on this as the south of the borough now comes in the Windsor constituency.

[Big J R]

I think this is the person in question.

 

Would you trust a 'bird' with hair THAT short ??

[GarySTFC]

JR, Fiona suffered from a bout of cancer. I think your comments are a bit in bad taste.

[Guest]

I agree with you Gary, comments like that are not uncalled for.

 

 

Sue

[Guest]

Sorry that should read

 

Comments like that are uncalled for

 

Sue

[Guest]

well said sue and gary.(maybe he did'nt know about fiona)!!

 

see you at the kingstonia game.(i cant spell)

[BFR]

Given that I'm not exactly a great ambassador when it comes to good taste I should keep my thoughts to myself on this, though I suspect JR was not aware that the MP had been unwell.

[Rebel Kay]

Having been through the whole chemo thng, people so often make very heartless remarks without thinking or when trying to be funny. On the whole its not funny and and can be really offensive at a time when you're feeling pretty [****!!****] anyway. (getting down off my soap box now)

[GarySTFC]

I don't think JR would have made the comments if he had known. Most of his jokes are of appalling standard anyway (of the groan variety), but I think he's innocent in this respect.

[Guest]

I agree Kay, I think working here at Wexham makes me realise that you should always think twice before making comments about people.

 

And well said on your soap box.

 

Sue

[Mark44]

yeah i dont actually know what to say but yeah

[Rebel Kay]

Apologies for earlier outburst, just made me really mad. I'm sure JR didn't realise. I think Fiona wass very brave to carry on in the public eye throughout her treatment.

[Woody SUFC]

I wish Big JR well in his treatment to get his foot out of his mouth!

[Big J R]

May I take this opportunity to wholeheartedly apologise for my previous comment.

 

I had no idea that Fiona had been treated for cancer.

 

I wish her well for the future !

[Guest]

Fiona has been a supporter of the Rebels for a long while, she came to the original meeting at the Town Hall years ago. I also saw her walking out side the Houses of Parliment wearing a Slough Town shirt, a few years ago.

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

And i bet if she got moved to Maidenhead she'd have been wearing a Maidenhead shirt too... We are loyal supporters, POLITICIANS aren't! So she came to the YEADING match woo-hoo how many other 1 a season fans were there (And they weren't getting good publicity for it!)

[Ted]

So she's not a regular football fan---well at the moment thats over 99% of the population of Slough written off then.

 

She's been supportive of us, attends the more important events etc, which is not bad. Don't forget that as a Minister and MP she may not have a vast amount of free time.