Louise Mensch resigns...

If the US let Russel Brand in then I doubt they'll have much problem admitting Louise Mensch.

She's married to a US citizen. She has no convicitions for drugs (or anything else). She's lived there previously. Why would they turn her away?

Oh, that is an interesting point about admitted Class A use. There must be loads of celebs though that live in the US who have admitted drug use. Or are there? Is Boy George actually banned from the US now?

On a serious note can anyone from Croby actually give details of one thing she has done to improve the voters of Corby`s lot since she was foisted upon them.

I note her internet profile says last month she set up an internet site to rival twitter and she is looking for venture capital investments for it. Hardly sounds like she is wanting to spend time with family if she has time to do that. Sounds more like she sees herself as a future Martha Lane Fox or Anna Coulter not that the world needs another one of them.

Hope she has her green card and visa sorted out. Didn't recall the USA are that appreciative of self confessed class A drug users. Would be funny if immigration sent her right back.

Reply to her resignation letter from the PM ' Your are an inspiring MP - family should come first '

If she was that good he'd be begging her to stay

Scandal or easy job in pipeline - let's watch this space.

Saw her on HIGNFY - she was trying to be funny - she wasn't .

She's asserted herself as a physically attractive, right of centre 'personality'.

She is copying the Sarah Palin ethos of 'Make a splash, then make loads of cash'

She was pretty soft on Murdoch when she was on the committee. Perhaps she had pre-planned this move and wanted to stay on the good side of a potential future employer.

For those interested in the by election, see here for more (Lewis Baston, elections geek in Huff Post)

Fox News goto face LOL.

I knew she wouldn't last long. Just another job/experience to tick off. Assume her husband has given some sort of ultimatum about there relationship (not read thread yet). My next prediction is that that relationship will be over within 18 months and she will get a tv presenting job or newspaper editing - here or USA.

Of course she'll have a media career. She'll be the Fox News got to face about UK politics. Blonde and expressionless forehead with no thoughts of her own...

(snaps kitkat in two)

She'll go a long way.

Corby will be an interesting by-election. Labour should win; but Liberal vote interesting

she made a splash, Newsnight. ans 5-Live will miss her. A looker but too right wing And publicity seeking

Politics is the career she's always wanted - OlympyWindowMash knew her at school and it was obvious then, DH knew her at Oxford and it was even more obvious. So if she's being forced out of a job she's always wanted and is enjoying because her giving up her career is seen as the only way to balance family life then that's sad. If, on the other hand, she's finding that she doesn't enjoy the job as much as she expected, or she has some glittering career opportunity ahead of her in NY, and is using the "family life" thing as an excuse, then less sad for her but it's a bit crap that she's perpetuated the "women can't hack families and demanding careers at the same time" myth.

think it's all a bit pathetic. Why did she not think it through. And all the expense of selecting a new candidate. she should cough up for it all. I didn't like her at all. Too smug. Pride comes before a fall. I wouldn't be surprised if she now pursues a media career. Dreadful woman.

Novac you're my new favourite MNer

Oh and apologies for spelling your name incorrectly Novack

:o

Gosh Novak you're such a cynic

But I bet you're right :o

i agree, she's a novellist, a story teller, using words to her best advantage is her bread and butter

It's the use of words like devastated that show how false her actions are. Devasted is a country after a tsunami or a tornado or how you feel if your family are brutal murdered... Chick lit author Mensch would use that word to describe a rip in her tights on a night on so I doubt she truly is devastated. As I say give it a few weeks and we'll see where ends up working in NY won't we. One of the empires education exam marking companies perhaps picking up her rewards for sticking up for him

I think it's all a convenient cover story- either she's got something waiting for her in NY or she's pre-empting some scandal. She's always seemed like a very driven, ambitious individual and it's hard to believe she would hand her notice in a week before a cabinet re-shuffle in which it was anticipated she would do well in.

It's not like her husband moved to New York out of the blue; he was living there when they met and married, she knew it was going to be difficult with the kids, juggling a demanding career, etc. So why give it all up halfway through? I can't wait for the big reveal in the drawing room.

Or a celebrity husband who has threatened divorce if she doesn't go?

Hmm, albertswearengen she did actually want to be a politician though. She has always been interested in politics. Ok, I'll fess up. I knew her at school. She was very interested in politics even then, and highly ambitious. It was no surprise to me years later to find out she was standing to be an MP. I suspect the daily drudgery of it doesn't really stack up though. She probably has some more exciting things lined up.

"Give it a few weeks and she'll be working for a Murdoch company out of New York where the botox is no doubt cheaper" I'm not sure Novak... her comment about being devastated makes me think this is not what she wants but what she thinks she has to do. Devastated is a pretty strong word to use.

OK so that rules out LM stepping aside for Boris... I couldn't see her doing that to be honest anyway. She seemed far to ambitious to do that.

She didn't really think things through then did she? That's if the stuff about family is the real reason. I have never heard a politician say how brilliant being an MP is for family life quite the opposite. She has 3 young children and a husband in New York I'm not sure how she thought that was going to be easy for any sort of family life. Maybe it's because she wasn't really involved in politics before she was parachuted in as the 'celeb' candidate. In future they should stick to candidates who actually want to be politicians- might be better for the constituents.