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Nadine Dorries finally resigns

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LlynTegid · 26/08/2023 19:05

About time.

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PinkCherryBlossoms · 27/08/2023 08:04

Cornettoninja · 27/08/2023 07:32

My view isn’t taking it seriously at all - that’s the point. Interesting insight into your sense of humour though.

I think this is funny personally:

Shouldn't you be defending Sunak from the claims by Nadine Dorries?

Or should you be defending Nadine?

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Quite the dilemma!

And after all, some of what she's said in that letter is true. It's a bit fucking much her complaining about a zombie Parliament, but just because someone's a hypocrite doesn't make them wrong.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2023 08:10

She's right about the green stuff too, even tough she didn't give a shit in her constituency. Clav and co could heed her warning and stop referring to eco mobs etc. The environmentalist middle classes are a strange bunch of people to target as the latest folk devils. I do include Starmer in this. He needs to step back from that game.

Mid Beds is becoming a younger area - lots of younger people are concerned about green issues. Positioning the Labour guy as a 'tree hugger' will win not lose him quite a lot of votes. Definitely not the right strategy from Tory HQ.

GCAcademic · 27/08/2023 08:11

Nat6999 · 27/08/2023 04:51

How many gallons had she drunk when she wrote her resignation letter? It sounded like a letter to someone who had dumped her & ended a relationship.

That's exactly what I thought. I can't remember the last time I cringed so hard. I do wonder if she has a drink problem, given the way she behaves.

JanieEyre · 27/08/2023 08:42

I hold no brief for Sunak, but it's extraordinary stupid of her not to realise that he didn't need to do any co-ordination of attacks against her, it was solely her own behaviour that caused that. She seems to have absolutely no awareness that we really don't need Sunak to tell us that someone who claims a hefty salary for doing fuck all, and the same again for her daughters, is a total grifter.

PinkCherryBlossoms · 27/08/2023 08:58

JanieEyre · 27/08/2023 08:42

I hold no brief for Sunak, but it's extraordinary stupid of her not to realise that he didn't need to do any co-ordination of attacks against her, it was solely her own behaviour that caused that. She seems to have absolutely no awareness that we really don't need Sunak to tell us that someone who claims a hefty salary for doing fuck all, and the same again for her daughters, is a total grifter.

She also seems to hold him responsible for Johnson's downfall. I know Rishi sounded the starting pistol, but it was happening anyway. If he hadn't, someone else would've.

Johnson was finally removed when enough of his colleagues realised he was a liability. That's also why he stayed removed. Given that, as she explains in her diatribe, the Tories are fucked and they know they are, if there was any chance of him doing better than Rishi is, they'd have reinstalled him as PM. And backed him over the standards investigations and sanctions, which couldn't have happened if the parliamentary Tories had prevented it. There is a reason they haven't.

medianewbie · 27/08/2023 09:29

Butteredtoast55 · 26/08/2023 21:36

Well that letter is hysterical. And I mean that in more ways than one.

Indeed! And I bet it was co-authored (or at least influenced by) a certain BJ.
Still, Dorries' true colours are on show. It reads like it was written aged 18, at midnight, after too much wine, when rejected by a romantic interest.

PinkCherryBlossoms · 27/08/2023 09:31

medianewbie · 27/08/2023 09:29

Indeed! And I bet it was co-authored (or at least influenced by) a certain BJ.
Still, Dorries' true colours are on show. It reads like it was written aged 18, at midnight, after too much wine, when rejected by a romantic interest.

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Boris has always seemed a lot less interested in her than she is in him.

medianewbie · 27/08/2023 09:32

But @PinkCherryBlossoms post is much more important.
BJ went (& stayed gone) because the 1922 lot finally realised he was a liability.
That was ultimately down to his actions, not Nadine or Rishi or anyone elses.

medianewbie · 27/08/2023 09:33

Ah, @PinkCherryBlossoms - x posts!
Yes, a straightforward projection / defence of her crush then probably.

BCCoach · 27/08/2023 09:37

Hawkins009 · 26/08/2023 21:22

I'm guessing a bigger political strategy at play here.

What exactly? Her political career is dead. She won’t ever hold office again. Her brand is utterly toxic, so it’ll be a prime time slot on GB News for her. Oh wait, she already has that.

cakeorwine · 27/08/2023 09:40

BCCoach · 27/08/2023 09:37

What exactly? Her political career is dead. She won’t ever hold office again. Her brand is utterly toxic, so it’ll be a prime time slot on GB News for her. Oh wait, she already has that.

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I wonder if she will be writing a column explaining how Sunak isn't the one who got inflation down and how he should take climate change seriously?

Doesn't sound like the kind of thing that would appear in the Daily Mail or GB News?

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 09:40

She is said to have been an excellent constituency MP. Not sure how true that is. But if it is true, her massive majority may have been to some extent personal rather than party. Which will make for an interesting by-election....

Lillianofthevalley · 27/08/2023 09:51

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 09:40

She is said to have been an excellent constituency MP. Not sure how true that is. But if it is true, her massive majority may have been to some extent personal rather than party. Which will make for an interesting by-election....

It's been tory since 1931.....

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2023 09:53

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 09:40

She is said to have been an excellent constituency MP. Not sure how true that is. But if it is true, her massive majority may have been to some extent personal rather than party. Which will make for an interesting by-election....

I have literally never ever heard anyone say that curlew. The BBC managed to unearth one person yesterday for 'balance' in their article.

Were have you heard this from? She is a terrible terrible constituency MP.

Her massive majority is about her being a Conservative.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2023 09:54

To be fair it's not GB News she's on is it? It's the other one. TalkNews?

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LlynTegid · 27/08/2023 09:59

Nadine Dorries said how Boris Johnson was one of the few MPs to engage with her upon her election to Parliament. Nadine Dorries, who bears some resemblance to an older Jennifer Arcuri. I can imagine why Boris Johnson took an interest.

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aspirationalflamingo · 27/08/2023 10:18

She has a book coming out soon. This is just marketing.

PinkCherryBlossoms · 27/08/2023 10:19

She does, but I don't think she'd be the type to go quietly even if there was no book.

BCCoach · 27/08/2023 10:39

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 09:40

She is said to have been an excellent constituency MP. Not sure how true that is. But if it is true, her massive majority may have been to some extent personal rather than party. Which will make for an interesting by-election....

Literally no one has said that. She doesn’t even live in the constituency, has no office there and the last time she held a surgery was in 2020. She doesn’t answer any mail (despite employing her daughter on £50k at taxpayers expense to run her non-existent constituency office). She has only bothered to turn up to a vote in parliament 6 times in the last year. She is the worst constituency MP one could imagine, holding her electors in utter contempt.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2023 11:05

She did actually reply to my letter a year or so ago. Well, I mean it wasn't her, and it wasn't her DD either. It was actually quite a good letter written by someone else who does her work for her.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2023 11:06

holding her electors in utter contempt

But... but... we are the good people of mid-Bedfordshire !

SerendipityJane · 27/08/2023 11:10

Thought she was a cunt since this:

Nadine Dorries finally resigns
Hawkins009 · 27/08/2023 11:10

BCCoach · 27/08/2023 09:37

What exactly? Her political career is dead. She won’t ever hold office again. Her brand is utterly toxic, so it’ll be a prime time slot on GB News for her. Oh wait, she already has that.

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Not for her.

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 11:33

Sorry- she is obviously a crap constituency MP too. Mea culpa....I wasn't listening to John Sopel and Lewis Goodall properly!

Cornettoninja · 27/08/2023 11:42

CurlewKate · 27/08/2023 09:40

She is said to have been an excellent constituency MP. Not sure how true that is. But if it is true, her massive majority may have been to some extent personal rather than party. Which will make for an interesting by-election....

I don’t know how you’d untangle the voters who would potentially shift their vote due to disillusionment with the whole Tory party from those who may shift their vote because Nadine wasn’t standing. I’m sure she will but I’m guessing,ahead of time, she’ll spin it in her favour.