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I want to know who was working on the Severn Bridge tolls on Bank Holiday Monday.

I want to know who it was that let blimmin Geri Halliwell in, so she could go and write an album over here in Wales?

It’s like we’re going to be partly responsible for it! Oh the shame.

But she did come over here, and she had a wonderful time by the sounds of it (obvs) and she wrote a blog about it. It’s bonkers. Although to be fair, it does sound like a lovely world she lives in. Here are a few of my favourite excerpts from her blog…and I’ve added nothing I promise. So, she starts….

"On Bank Holiday Monday I drove to Wales– the beautiful land of hills and blustery winds. I drove through the rolling hills of Wales to a ‘ginger bread’ house, and was welcomed by a sparkling woman named Amy Wadge with two little angels wrapped around her ankles." (She sure does write purdy doesn’t she??)

"We then went to the back garden to her ‘magic shed’ She would play the guitar, I would sing and we had the most magical time. She was the yin to my yang. I’m smiling gratefully from my week in Wales with Amy, in the magic shed."

There was quite a lot more to this blog, but I think that’s probably quite enough for one sitting.

I love positivity don’t get me wrong, there’s just something about creative people, artists/musicians etc that just take it that one step too far. Where you can end up feeling like you’ve just eaten four massive bowls of ice cream smothered in chocolate, strawberry and toffee sauce, squirts of cool whip, with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.

And then someone offers you a wafer thin mint. TOO MUCH SACCHARIN!!!! But, I’m being a cow. At least she means well, and you never know, there may have been magic in that shed, it is Wales after all. Plus, anything’s got to be better than her version of “It’s raining men”.

Sticking with Geri, she came under fire this week for tweeting about Margaret Thatcher, although I think anyone who dared suggest Margaret Thatcher ‘rest in peace’ did as well.

Geri tweeted “Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a green grocer’s daughter who taught me any thing is possible...x.”

There was a massive backlash to this, so Geri took it down. She’s now gone back on her blog and admits she regrets that now, and wishes she’d had the courage of her convictions, like Maggie herself.

Now, I wasn’t going to touch on the late Mrs Thatcher this week, as she is possibly the most divisive person in British history, and I, like Geri, don’t want to open myself up to a load of abuse.

However, now I’ve started. Pretty much my whole childhood was under the government of Maggie Thatcher, and I grew up in not just a Labour voting household, but my parents were also massive CND supporters too, so you could say we were pretty socialist.

But as a child growing up under Maggie, the only way it affected me PERSONALLY was when she stopped free school milk, and then introduced Poll Tax. So, am I celebrating her death? No. Personally I think that the fact ‘Ding Dong the witch is dead’ is in the charts is actually fairly disgusting, and shows a very ugly side to the human race.

But, in saying that, she did ruin thousands of lives, through closing the mines. She was responsible for the sinking of the Belgrano, for the deaths of British and Argentinian soldiers in the Falklands. She introduced Section 28, supported dictators like Pol Pot and Pinochet, believed there was ‘no such thing as society, only individuals’, and due to her actions on privatisation, is arguably responsible for the state the country’s in today.

And no, Geri Halliwell, she did not stand for ‘girl power’. She may have been the first and only female prime minister so far, but she hated feminism and described it as ‘poison’.

So, whilst I won’t be partying to celebrate her passing, neither will I be uttering the words rest in peace. She has died, and that is that, and I want to be neither respectful nor disrespectful.