To think Nadine Dorries

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Was expelled as an MP less to do with I'm a Celebrity and more to do with the comment regarding Dave and George 'they are two posh boys who don't know the price of milk'. They were just waiting for the opportunity to rid thenselves of this woman who speaks the truth.

There are plenty of MPs with outside interests as barristers, company directors, appearing on TV as paid guests and most prominentkly on speaking engagements.

Gordon Brown has barely appeared in Parliament since leaving office as Prime Minister and is said to do a significant number of paid speaking engagements as does David Milliband.

Personally I would like to see MPs work regular 9 - 5 jobs 46 weeks a year like the rest of us but as that is not how it works I dont see what Nadine has done wrong.

The general opinion on political blogs is the Tory Whip office have badly misjudged this and it will backfire. Cameron didnt sack the Tory MP involved in the PlebGate scandal for weeks so not sure why such a swift response here.

Nadine Dorries a stupid bitch. And I rarely use the "b" word. I have hated her since I read a blogpost of hers about egg donation and IVF that was just made up, condescending shite, but she'd barred comments from.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like David Cameron or George Osbourne either. But I don't dislike her cos she criticises them. I can't stand her because she's even more right wing, blinkered and anti-women.

Andrew Mitchell was the Chief Whip so probably struggled to suspend himself over Plebgate!

This does seem something of an overreaction although the news today has been peppered with voxpop of people within her constituency criticising what she has done.

She's hardly in touch! She done that thing on the council estate didn't she? Tv show.

She speaks a load of bollocks

She should have been suspended long ago due to having no connection to reality.

Regardless of her spat with the posh boys and her delightful opinions on abortion, surely anyone who took a month off work without permission should be given a talking to? Her job is to represent her constituency. How can she do that from the sodding jungle?

MrsKeith no I don't think she is but I think since she said that it was just a waiting game. David Cameron can't stand to be shown up as how out of touch with real peoples lives he really is. He loves his public face but the reality behind it is so far fronm the truth.

Agree with topsmart.

She is paid a reasonable wage to do a job. Therefore she needs to consult with her employers before taking time off.

Maybe they didn't like her very much. However, if I knew I wasn't in my boss's good books then I took unauthorised leave to do something that could potentially bring my employeer into disrepute, I would be expecting my P45 sharpish.

No sympathy for Nadine. First of all, she has been elected by her constituents to do a job. She should do that job.

Second, no good will come of it. Perhaps it's an old-fashioned view but I think MPs should comport themselves in a manner worthy of our respect. How can going to live in the jungle for a couple of weeks with a bunch of minor celebrities to eat bugs and be humiliated by tv viewers make you look anything other than ridiculous?

If you or I were to stop doing our jobs in order to spend a month doing anything, without either a note from a doctor or permission from our employers, then would we really expect to have our jobs back at the end of it?

YABU to think there needs to be a reason beyond "she abandoned her job".

Having other jobs as board members is one thing (they all do it), but what she is doing is disappearing from parliament and her constituents for 8 weeks to appear on television with the intent of becoming a celebrity. She will have no access to her constituents or parliament while she is there and she will miss key votes. He has done this without permission from her boss (the taxpayer) and her party leader.

If I buggered off for 8 weeks to appear on television without permission I'm pretty sure I'd be suspended from my job too!

I don't care what party she represents, any MP who thinks it's acceptable to sign a contract that will take her to the other side of the world for a month, specifically stating she will be out of reach, during the parliamentary term, deserves to be dumped. Silly cow. Upthread, someone said Gordon Brown's hardly been seen in the Commons since the election... but he's still available, if one of his constituents has an issue he can still get hold of his MP. How can anyone from mid Beds talk to their MP when she's making a tit of herself on ITV? How can she represent her constituent's interests in the House from Australia?

If I took a month off without asking my employer I would be sacked and rightly so. Why should an MP be any different?

Exactly Watto. It doesn't matter if you are doing something dignified, or whether it is going to represent your employer in a good light, or whether it is behaviour unbecoming of a , if you take a month off work without permission then you lose your job. That is all.

She is not a celebrity. She is a working MP whose salary is paid by the tax payer and who is elected to represent her constituents in parliament. How the hell can she do that from the jungle?

She deserves sacking. And she knew full well she shouldn't have been doing it as it was all secret till yesterday.

I had never heard of her till yesterday and am gobsmacked that she could have thought this was a good idea. She is far too stupid to be an MP if she thinks this is a good idea.

I recently wrote to my MP on a planning issue and recieved a reply within 10 days. How can Nadine Dorries's constituants expect the same curtesy when she's in a jungle cut of from contact with the outside world. I hope she's at least got the decency to take the time as unpaid leave.

Nadine Dorries? A woman who speaks the truth?

No, Nadine Dorries is a nasty, sly, woman-hating, patronizing waste of space.

I would be very unimpressed if my constituency MP did this. Regardless of what I thought of them previously. It isn't the same as being a company director or after dinner speaking, it is disappearing to the other side of the world, taking part in an undignified game show, where she cannot continue with any of her parliamentary responsibilities.

I'm just glad that she's not going to be around to try to continue anti-woman legislation. Yes she might have been left alone if she wasn't a controversial figure, but everyone knows that there is a limit to how far its wise to push your employer. If she thinks that becoming a minor celebrity is more important than her bonkers political ideals then that's her problem.

She's taken potentially a month off from her job without telling her employers. She has a responsibility to her constituents which she is abandoning in order to go on a television program for 'Celebrities'. I would fire her. She's taking the piss.

Hopefully a crocodile will much her in the jungle

Vile woman

What everyone else said. And I don't think it's ok that Gordon brown hasn't been near Westminster for two years either.

She took a month off work without permission.

She hasn't been expelled as an MP, she has had the Whip withdrawn. She will have a chance to explain herself when she gets back.

She remains as an MP at present.

The funny thing is, having the Whip withdrawn sounds like a nice thing. Political language is an odd beast.

The fact that she is prepared to go on a show where they eat creatures when they are still alive says everything about her moral values.

Yes, her card has been marked by the Cuntservatives but what on earth are any of us doing having anything other than zero tolerance for any MP who doesn't attend the House on a regular and reliable basis?

Cross party issue here....