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To think Nadine Dorries should never have been made Culture Secretary

87 replies

JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 04/04/2022 19:32

Privatising Channel 4 is a terrible idea. I hope it doesn’t work out.

www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/04/nadine-dorries-to-press-ahead-with-plan-to-privatise-channel-4

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SleeplessInEngland · 05/04/2022 08:12

The anti-culture secretary.

SleeplessInEngland · 05/04/2022 08:14

@Polyanthus2

Theses bloody woman upstarts - how dare they have a senior post - we need to get a man in toute de suite.

Really women need to! accept they aren't up to these kinds of jobs. And a former nurse - pfffft

Don’t even try it. She’s terrible at her brief and is being rightly criticised.
Ellmau · 05/04/2022 08:15

TBF most TV companies are privately owned.

As long as it isn't a trial run for the BBC...

CurlyBurley · 05/04/2022 08:15

@TheNestedIf

Stupid, ignorant and does a better impression of being permanently very, very drunk than Paul Whitehouse as Sir Rowley Birkin. She shouldn't even be in charge of the crisps at a buffet, the fucking cultural vandal.
Beautifuly put 👍
AdamRyan · 05/04/2022 08:16

mobile.twitter.com/bmay/status/1489874218309328903?s=20&t=ZCuKJzFCTReM5cI_7DCiiQ

She so bad it's hilarious

EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/04/2022 08:16

@Rafaisthekingofclay

YANBU Nadine Dorries should never have been given any position of responsibility anywhere.
this.

She shouldn't be put in charge of a hamster, let alone the nation's culture

SleeplessInEngland · 05/04/2022 08:18

@Ellmau

TBF most TV companies are privately owned.

As long as it isn't a trial run for the BBC...

It’s 100% ideological. Publicly-owned companies are an affront to these people, and there’s no way she actually believes it’ll become a competitor to Netflix as she says.
Aliceforgot · 05/04/2022 08:20

The proceeds will be used to fund the levelling up agenda, i.e. will never be seen by anyone again.

She shouldn't even be in charge of the crisps at a buffet

Also this.

Aliceforgot · 05/04/2022 08:24

@GCAcademic Grin

LaMagdalena · 05/04/2022 08:24

YANBU

DGRossetti · 05/04/2022 08:28

The proceeds will be used to fund the levelling up agenda, i.e. will never be seen by anyone again.

That sound like putting a stack of fivers under one side of a sir Bufton Tufton so that he doesn't spill his port at the lodge.

RandomThought96 · 05/04/2022 08:32

Ministerial jobs are only being offered to those who backed Brexit. So the talent pool is extremely limited. Dorries at Culture? Priti Patel at the Home Office? Grant Shapps at Transport? All pretty average people who are hopelessly out of their depth in their current roles.
In the past mediocre ministers would be supported/guided/reigned in by the civil service. But there is now a lot less talent in civil service roles and ministers rely more and more on political advisors and lobbyists. The mess we see across government today is the result.

pointythings · 05/04/2022 08:36

Criticism of Nadine Dorries is nothing to do with her being a woman, it's to do with her being a stupid incompetent asshat.

Wiredforsound · 05/04/2022 08:36

@Polyanthus2

Theses bloody woman upstarts - how dare they have a senior post - we need to get a man in toute de suite.

Really women need to! accept they aren't up to these kinds of jobs. And a former nurse - pfffft

Nothing to do with her being a woman. We have many senior capable women politicians from a wide variety of careers. It’s to do with her having the IQ of a spanner, being politically tone deaf, and being rewarded for being nothing more than Boris Johnson’s tame terrier. The term ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’ was invented for her.
Wiredforsound · 05/04/2022 08:37

@pointythings

Criticism of Nadine Dorries is nothing to do with her being a woman, it's to do with her being a stupid incompetent asshat.
This is perfect.
DGRossetti · 05/04/2022 08:40

Ministerial jobs are only being offered to those who backed Brexit.

Or claimed they did. So either stupid, or duplicitous. Although as we know "Tory" is a portmanteau of both.

DGRossetti · 05/04/2022 08:42

It’s to do with her having the IQ of a spanner

That is soooooooooooo unfair on spanners. Which are damn useful and age-tested tools.

Although she is a tool, I'd grant that.

longwayoff · 05/04/2022 08:42

YABU Random to call it a talent pool. More like warmed up leftovers of The Apprentice.

ScreamingSauvignon · 05/04/2022 08:53

@longwayoff

YANBU. Words cannot express my contempt for this woman. She's a female Michael Fabricant.
Same. She is nothing more than an opportunistic lush. The way she sucks up to Johnson too makes me feel actual rage.

She is so so out of her depth, yet there she is. And much like the rest of this inept, odious cabinet all we can do is look on in disgust.

RafaIstheKingofClay · 05/04/2022 09:37

God forbid we should criticise anyone so utterly incompetent and useless at their job if they happen to be a woman.

It’s more of a talent puddle than a talent pool. It’s difficult to name one of them that isn’t a completely thick incompetent.

EthelTheAardvark · 05/04/2022 09:53

YANBU. It's a real embarrassment that such an utterly stupid woman is in the cabinet.

EthelTheAardvark · 05/04/2022 09:58

@Polyanthus2

Theses bloody woman upstarts - how dare they have a senior post - we need to get a man in toute de suite.

Really women need to! accept they aren't up to these kinds of jobs. And a former nurse - pfffft

Don't be ridiculous. You only have to look at the incompetent, corrupt male ministers currently in office, to say nothing of the idiots who have come and gone like Matt Hancock and Gavin Williamson. The reality is that Johnson can't tolerate anyone with half a brain in the cabinet because of the way they would show him up.
Merrymouse · 05/04/2022 09:58

YANBU, but then we shouldn’t have this PM either.

The fact that she was repeatedly rolled out to defend the indefensible when other Tories were hiding tells you everything you need to know about her appointment.

DGRossetti · 05/04/2022 09:59

@EthelTheAardvark

YANBU. It's a real embarrassment that such an utterly stupid woman is in the cabinet.
I thinks she is a perfect example of the state of the UK today, really. She didn't get there by accident. She didn't become culture secretary in a bizarre lottery mix up.

She was elected and promoted.

Yup. That's your country and countrypeople right there. In a literal nutshell.

ddl1 · 05/04/2022 10:47

Awful person. She publicly attacked a critic in her constituency, implying that she was fraudulently claiming disability benefits, as she couldn't be that disabled if she could tweet that much (nothing was supposed to be wrong with her fingers!) and go to the pub (obviously disabled people shouldn't have a social life). In any case, I believe that she turned out not to be on benefits, but on paid sick leave while awaiting an operation. Also, probably many MPs have had affairs with married people, but she's the only one to my knowledge, who denounced her partner's ex on her MP blog. And -despite this- she is a religious-rightie, who attacked my former MP Evan Harris for his pro-choice views, calling him 'Dr. Death'. Harris was narrowly defeated in 2010, partly as a result of a religious-right smear campaign that would have disgraced Sarah Palin's constituency. (Not what I need in my backyard. But it was a wake-up call here. The non-Tory parties co-operated far more after that than is usual; got another left-leaning LibDem in in 2017; and in 2019, we were almost the only constituency in England where a non-Tory MP actually increased their share of the vote.) Dorries may have contributed to this smear campaign and certainly gloated over Harris' defeat.