What M.P's Get Up To...
- 7 November 2012 09:43200027i have never understood how sinn fein members get away with it, gerry adams even claimed for a london office.
i can remember a town councillor getting the order of the boot for 6 months non attendance. - 7 November 2012 10:20200042It is sad that MPs do not have to follow the same rules and standards as expected of our councillors.
- 7 November 2012 10:34200047getting back to the m.p, if she wants to engage with the voters surely it would be better to visit local neighbourhood forums and attend events staged in her constituency or even hold open air surgeries?
works for charlie and gwyn before him. - 7 November 2012 11:33200064Apparently she is a good constituency MP who does just that. Why do you think otherwise? jumping to conclusions Howard?
- 7 November 2012 11:49200066not at all barry, if she is well in with her constituents why would should need to take part in a reality show?
seems to me she is paving the way to become a "d" list celebrity after she loses her seat at the next general election. - 7 November 2012 12:15200070You are talking about different things Howard. She is a hard working constituency MP but that is different from the national issues she wants to highlight. One issue is abortion and she is campaigning to get the time limit down to 20 weeks (something I agree totally with her on).
- Jan Higgins
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7 November 2012 12:52200077I was not talking about attending Parliament I was referring to the fact she will be unable to help her constituents should they need her help, I would have thought that is what the vast majority want... an available good MP not one volunteering to behave like a complete idiot on TV while on the other side of the world in Australia.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Nadine Dorries has demeaned the role of an MP
I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here is no place for an MP, and to claim it is part of your abortion agenda makes things worse
"As a seasoned media performer, Dorries knows how to work a message. She must have had some idea how unpopular this move would be. The TV show gig is paid - £40,000 in her case - and perks such as, say, a business-class flight to Australia would all have to be declared in the register of members' interests. So to justify her choice, she fell back on a populist argument: "I'm doing the show because 16million people watch it," she said. "If people are watching I'm a Celebrity, that is where MPs should be going." She added that she was also doing it to raise awareness of her pro-life views."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/07/nadine-dorries-celebrity-mpIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 7 November 2012 17:09200128a subject such as "pro life" is very serious and sensitive, using a bottom of the market reality tv show to "raise awareness" doesn't have any credibility.
- 7 November 2012 17:44200130# 15...........Caption Competition.....Charlie to Nadine...Go for it Nadine..I didn`t get a job either...I`m signed up for strictly
come dancing..........sod the whip..... - Keith Sansum1
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7 November 2012 22:21200227doesnt she think MP's are damaged goods enough without dissapearing for months on end
obviously to much free timeALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 November 2012 08:25200256lol!! Reg..one is tempted to reproduce the picture here again...ah sure why not..
Charlie was certainly amused by her ramblings...but look, not the other Tory chappies.
This of course is the girl who slammed Cameron and Osborne continuously on TV after Cameron said she was "frustrated" during Prime Ministers Questions, all to loud guffaws and much sniggering. She never quite forgave him/them for that one and shock horror went on national TV saying that neither Cameron nor Osborne know the price of a bottle of milk. Ahem...I dont know such things either...so am therefore by conclusion way up there in the higher echelons of society..only pausing briefly and occasionally to gaze down at the menials scurrying below..
lol!
But Nadine having continuously insulted, nay castigated, the prime minister several times now on national tv ..well I guess she reckoned her own career in the higher echelons of Toryism was scuppered and has therefore grabbed what she can before its all too late. Shades here of that other limelight grabber Louise Mensch...so apparently committed, yet gave up at the whiff of a better offer from New York.
Trying now to mend fences after the horse has bolted into the meadow, the spinners are spinning some old baloney re her being on a pro life anti abortion mission..complete hogwash of course. Much of the programme is edited anyway...it is just a limelight hogging exercise which will be greatly enjoyed by Nadine and whoppeee rub hands with glee.. she will be paid for it too..it must be an early Christmas for Nadine.
She is the first sitting MP to do such a thing...to bugger off and leave her constituents to fend for themselves.
Despite having said all the above..I wont be able to resist watching!!email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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8 November 2012 08:30200261theres been other mp's wasnt there?
opik and galloway? and the other labour guy?ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 November 2012 08:33200262They were ex by the time they dunnit Keefy..email: dover7@msn.com
- 8 November 2012 08:33200263Must say if it was our own MP,he would not be missed,
- Jan Higgins
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8 November 2012 08:35200265Maybe the reason Charlie is smiling was that he had an earpiece in and he was actually listening to something else entirely.
I agree entirely with the rest of your post PaulB except for the last sentence, I would have to be paid big money to watch such rubbish.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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8 November 2012 08:36200266but they are paid £40,000 to go!!!ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 November 2012 08:39200268Nadine really should keep her clothes on....just seen a pic of her in a bathing suit in the paper. Another reason doing this is so daft.
- Keith Sansum1
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8 November 2012 08:40200270its a publicity thing of course, but also highlights another disgruntled tory MP over the mouse's lack of leadershipALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 November 2012 12:29200304Rumour has it that the forlorn and heartbroken Conservative voters of Nadine's constituency in mid bedfordshirrrrre are congregating around local juke boxes in solemn tearful vigil.. and pumping coins into the colourful machines to play that old standard Chuck Berry hit of years ago...expect to see it return to the charts sometime soon..
do you remember it? this is how it goes...
"
Nadine, honey is that you?
Oh, Nadine. Honey, is that you?
Seems like every time I see you Darling you got something else to do.
"
A sad but plaintive cry...oh Nadine please come home.. say the abandoned voters.
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