Louise Mensch resigns...

[propercharlie]

too hard to balance famaily life :(

[FalseStartered]

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

[headfairy]

Gosh Novak you're such a cynic

But I bet you're right :o

[headfairy]

Oh and apologies for spelling your name incorrectly Novack

:o

[FalseStartered]

Novac you're my new favourite MNer

[Viviennemary]

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.

[CaseyShraeger]

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.

[kimjoy]

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

[kimjoy]

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

[NovackNGood]

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.

[SwedishEdith]

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.

[mrsbaldwin]

Fox News goto face LOL.

[mrsbaldwin]

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

[squoosh]

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.

[TunaPastaBake]

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 .

[NovackNGood]

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.

[NovackNGood]

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.

[SwedishEdith]

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?

[Clytaemnestra]

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?

[LBsBongers]

I agree with those who feel she was soft on Murdoch, she knew her future career prospects lay in the US media, scandalous really.

[Earlybird]

As a very successful rock band manager (for many years), her dh makes a great deal of money - probably much more than Louise. Perhaps that figures into it.

How old are her dc?

Maybe she just got tired of politics?

[PollyParanoia]

She doesn't give a monkeys about anything but her own self-promoting career and her newly loved-up relationship. All that bollocks about 'I have to pick the children up from school'. Her ex is the main carer and I think he probably could have managed to look after the kids what with her being on a parliamentary committee and all. He certainly must have done so when she, allegedly, had her Chicago lift done.
I'm sure she loves her kids, obviously, but I don't think she gives a stuff about the people of Corby or the Conservative Party.
And Xenia is absolutely right (don't always think that), the family courts are very sexist indeed about mothers vs fathers rights.

[Earlybird]

And to follow on from my previous comment about how much money her dh makes, he manages many more bands than just Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Here is a recently published list:


METALLICA
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
SHANIA TWAIN
JIMMY PAGE
GARBAGE
NINA GORDON
LOSTPROPHETS
MUSE
LIVING THINGS
DEAD 60s
NICKEL CREEK
GILLIAN WELCH
ERIC CHURCH
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
SNOW PATROL

Note: It is quite common for 'foreign' bands to hire US managers who understand nuances of that market. I expect he manages Muse, Snow Patrol (and other UK based bands) for North America only.

[Earlybird]

And with a quick google, we find out questions we have been asking: her dh is 19 years her senior, her 3 dc are all under age 10, and she married in secret in NYC without even telling her children!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8553011/Tory-MP-Louise-Bagshawe-secretly-marries-Metallica-manager-Peter-Mensch.html

[Earlybird]

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8553011/Tory-MP-Louise-Bagshawe-secretly-marries-Metallica-manager-Peter-Mensch.html

[SwedishEdith]

It won't last. It'll be a last-ditch attempt to keep it together.