Louise Mensch resigns...

''having plastic surgery is not the same as being attractive though''

too right

I don't think the Guradian slated her, they just asked her directly in an interview whether it was true or not. I think she may have declined to answer. I was just surprised that such a young woman would have a face lift.

why are people so cross, care even? I think its a bit of a non issue

AIBU-DM-Jeremy Kyle. A common DNA.
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Not just a labour / Tory split on this one though. Norman Tebbit's not too happy with her leaving early and using tax payers' money to fund a by election. After his wife was injured in IRA bomb he saw out his tenure and made it clear he wouldn't stand again so that he could care for her.

I don't think this is about family commitments. I think releasing this statement during the Olympics is very interesting timing as is the reason given. Maybe all will come clear soon have clearly watched too many episodes of In the Thick of it

having plastic surgery is not the same as being attractive though

I think the Guardian slated her for having plastic surgery

MN/Guardian- same difference

No one has slated her for being attractive!

She gets slated because she is self-serving, claims to speak from women like me, and she is a Tory. She has made this about her family when it is actually about being a puppy dog to her husband.

I like honesty.

I REALLY wish people would do their research into her as a woman and MP before deciding that the only complaint we have is that she is attractive.

why does she get so slated?

he is a sucessful attractive (so shoot her!) writer who had a short term career as an MP

only thing that got me was death threats against her kids on twitter

maybe thats why shes moving, fuck all to do with feminism

what makes you unsure about feeling sorry for her constituents, slug?

I make way more ££ than DH, yet it's assumed I'm the one that should give up their job for the sake of the offspring.

It's the old sexual double standard at work. I don't know whether to feel sorry for her constitutients or not.

He DH makes ££££££££££££££ she makes ££, not so surprising that she is the one doing the resigning.

In politics, resigning for "family reasons" is usually an indicator of a scandal on the horizon.

But since she is the one with the powerful job I am a bit at her, rather than her DH making the choice to resign.

To be fair clement women are crass and superficial, aren't we?

In our own little way we're quite good at it. Though we'll never be as good at being crass and superficial as someone like Dave, for example

Amelia are you playing anti-feminist bingo?? Or do you really think one woman can't criticise the behaviour of another without it being about jealousy? What a crass and superficial comment.

Ugh, why are women so often assumed to be jealous of other women's looks? Is that all our little minds can absorb 'pretty, prettier, prettiest, yuck, not pretty'.

Zzzzzzzzz

yup, am not jealous of her looks

This is all rather silly.

Her DH lives in the US.

She is moving herself and kids to be there ( they aren't his kids as far as I know.)

Looks pretty straightforward. Balancing work and home can mean you can't work in London ( as an MP or anything) and commute to the US as well.

Her writing is a separate issue and I don't see why is matters here so much- unless maybe some people are jealous that she is pretty?

Making this a debate about balancing family life is ridiculous. She is trying to dress it up as this but ultimately she wants to live with the husband she her worships/gets botox for/dresses up for (her words, not mine)

Thats absolutely fine but say its this and dont try and dress it up as something sanctimonious. Hopefully this is the last we hear of her.

I cant read those type of books. If I am reading trashy novels, I want proper good trash, Jeffrey Archer, Jilly Cooper, Barbara Taylor Bradford etc

Are you in Corby, Woolly?

It may be both 1 and 3
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If family life is so important, why didn't her husband move to the UK?

Good thing that can come out of this

1. Looking at demands on MPs with young families. Debating whether this a reason why we have so few female MPs and should /can more be done to accommodate.

I don't support / not support LM because she is a woman. I consider myself a feminist. This doesn't mean I automatically agree with or support all decisions made by all women. I get frustrated when I'm am meant to blindly agree with someone because of the "sisterhood".

My DH doesn't agree with everything another man says because of their gender. IMO it is not a sign of feminism principle to think we should be supportive of LM just because of her gender.

ROFL at Pandora Braithwaite.

I liked her standing up to trolls thing. Remember reading about her home life and puzzling how on earth the NY/London/Corby set up could work long term.

luckywinner Do you know anything about Louise Mensch at all? Apart from the fact that she's a woman and therefore we should all be blind to things such as her voting record, attendance record in Parliament and her constituency, work she has done on behalf of constituents, contributions to Parliamentary debates, searching questions she asked the Murdochs as a member of the Culture, Media and Sport sub-committee? *

Basically, the boring things that MPs do when they're not promoting themselves on Newsnight and Twitter?

• that was a trick question btw. But she did remind James Murdoch they had children the same age. Maybe she was angling for playdate.