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Louise Mensch resigns...

318 replies

propercharlie · 06/08/2012 09:38

too hard to balance famaily life :(

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AGiraffeOnTheDivingBoard · 07/08/2012 08:35

LM article

Viviennemary · 06/08/2012 22:52

Rebekah Brooks. Grin

mellen · 06/08/2012 22:30

"Corby is a marginal seat and Mensch won her seat by a majority of just 1,500. It will be very exciting to see what happens there. "

Job vacancy! Smile Who fancies standing? Grin

scummymummy · 06/08/2012 22:12

Marrying in secret is shit.

NovackNGood · 06/08/2012 22:11

Well it will be Lib Dems nil points thats for sure.

LittleFrieda · 06/08/2012 22:11

Vivienmary - agree.

LittleFrieda · 06/08/2012 22:09

Mensch isn't content to be just a constituency MP, and she's too much of a liability to be anything more than that. It's in everybody's interest that she steps down.

Corby is a marginal seat and Mensch won her seat by a majority of just 1,500. It will be very exciting to see what happens there.

Viviennemary · 06/08/2012 22:08

I've been reading a few articles about her. Apparently she started out as a tory, then joined the Labour party, and then went back to being a Tory! And this marrying in secret without even telling her own children. Shock What kind of woman does that.

scummymummy · 06/08/2012 21:56

I remember nearly upchucking hearing her talk about the slapper walks. She is breathtakingly sexist and missed the point entirely. Suspect that's a theme for her.

BerkshireMum · 06/08/2012 21:50

Husband lives in New York, children live in Corby, she's in Westminster Monday to Thursday. It was never going to work once she married again. Debate should be whether it was good on her for trying or unrealistic from the word go. Putting her family first has to be right.

I've done the stupid hours, travelling, long commute thing but at least I always manage to live in the same house as my family. For good or ill, MPs don't.

clemetteattlee · 06/08/2012 21:43

Sardine, nothing wrong with the political ambition. It just seems a dramatic about turn.

Mostly her views are standard Tory fayre. Anti gay-marriage, pro-life, pro-fox hunting, anti European expansion, lower taxes for the well off etc etc.

Jenny70 · 06/08/2012 21:37

I also think that being an MP for a marginal seat will have played into this as well. When she is talking to her current DH about who quits and relocates, he probably said what happens if you lose the next election - will I be rebuilding my career once yours takes a nose dive?

Maybe she wants kids with the new DH too, and figures after she serves her term kids will be off the agenda for her?

But I do feel that her lack of commitement to her constituents is very poor - she was elected in 2010 and married in 2011 - so we can assume that she had plans for a future with him when she was elected, what was her strategy for their relationship?

I don't know any couples that decided to marry despite living in different countries without a plan to actually be together in the short term.

SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:35

clemette I can't see much wrong with that quote though, just sounds honest!

scummymummy which of her views are odious? I would really be interested in finding out as when I saw her I was always left very unoffended - and for a tory MP that is quite something!

Viviennemary · 06/08/2012 21:35

I must say I wondered if this resignation was in any way connected to Murdoch. Has she a job lined up with one of the Murdoch companies. Why would this not be a surprise. I just simply don't believe she has made this decision because of her family.

LittleFrieda · 06/08/2012 21:29

Interesting that Lousise Mensch is one of @RupertMurdoch 's 24 followees.

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scummymummy · 06/08/2012 21:27

Coniger- she makes me vomit. I can't help that. She is attractive but utterly talentless as a writer or politician and with odious views to boot.

clemetteattlee · 06/08/2012 21:21

And on her career: "I'm not even a PPS [parliamentary private secretary, the lowest rung on the government ladder]! It's kind of annoying. What do I have to do to get promoted over here? Am I being disloyal? I don't know. I need to sit down with my whip and say, 'What do I have to do?' No, every time there is a raft of PPS promo­tions and my name is not on them, I have to sit down and think, 'What am I doing wrong?'"

SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:18
SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:18

Good LORD.

I mean, crikey.

DH is OK, and all that, but I've not branded myself. I take it she doesn't mean literally Confused

clemetteattlee · 06/08/2012 21:16

"I have strong feelings of hero worship towards him. I was longing to brand myself with his name for a very long time. He's a living legend, and to be his wife is the greatest honour." LM on her husband.

SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:15

Not that I've emailed her more than twice though!

SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:15

falsestarted that is poor but not surprising.

I get the same from mine Sad

SardineQueen · 06/08/2012 21:14

POssibly, SE.

FalseStartered · 06/08/2012 21:14

she had no politics of her own

i emailed her on occasion (eg; abortion clinics and counselling, the changes to legal aid, support for a local service funding) each time she replied with the line that she would not be voting against the government.

she took no local cause to the house, i never heard her speak in favour of her constituents.

SwedishEdith · 06/08/2012 21:13

Is coniger LM? Why can't people say her writing's shit?