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The simple fact is they’re there to provide leadership and direction,
er, ok then.
This is the tory party and the civil service, that means leadership amounts to "do this or you're all fired" (gets done) "excellent, suzy, you keep your job, the rest of you are fired, suzy I expect no reduction in output or you're fired."
Regrettably this is also the model in a large number of businesses.
As for direction its simply party line. Poor Dorries and several of her colleagues have a department where the party line either doesn't exist so they're left to dither and fluff and look incompetent whilst ensuring the department looks like a pointless distraction (things at which Dorries is very good) or is do nothing/poke with a stick until it breaks like the health Secretary.
Michael Spicer's The Room Next Door is ace. 😀
Mad Nad stepping down at next election. I see a pattern forming here, better to stand down than be decimated.😁 Conveniently not around for the ever expanding Brexit storm too...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64590795
She's writing a book though, about...Boris Johnson! It was everyone else's fault he was forced out blah, blah, blah.
I think he might need a restraining order soon.😖
Shell return as mad and the spad chasing the PM's gonad.
Mad Nad stepping down at next election.
Named in Johnsons resignation honours list - no need to bother with trifling nonsense like elections in future, got a job for life in the Lords.
Strictly speaking a peerage is immediate - so her and the other MPs he's given peerages to were supposed to join the Lords immediately and there should be at least 4 by-elections on the cards at the moment. But.... it seems like rules are for people other than Johnson and his pals
onehundredthidiot
Full Member
Shell return as mad and the spad chasing the PM’s gonad.
I'll admit, that made me chuckle!
Dories in the lords is just another reason to abolish it
Her seats quite safe, huge majority, one of the few tory MPs likely to survive an election were it tomorrow.
I expect she knows that she'll never get near cabinet again and the Lords is money for nothing, plus she can do her TV show easier
Will Johnson take her much safer mid-beds seat tho?
Will Johnson take her much safer mid-beds seat tho?
I’m sure that was the deal. I get you a seat in the lords, then I get your safe seat
Oooof! Looks like the Mid Bedfordshire natives have had just about enough of her bullshit.
https://twitter.com/miffythegamer/status/1684527508832522240
Schrödinger's MP
Not sure about savage. That letter is perfectly polite under the circumstances. It's incredible an MP can go AWOL without consequence.
Oooof! Looks like the Mid Bedfordshire natives have had just about enough of her bullshit.
Thats a work of art. Surely dithering like that is a contempt of Parliament?
Not sure about savage. That letter is perfectly polite under the circumstances
It's really not very ceremonious language when you consider it's coming on behalf of a public authority. The letter is, on the face of it, polite, but the message is clearly inviting her to consider ****ing off at the first opportunity.
It’s incredible an MP can go AWOL without consequence.
It’s incredible that there are still Rules/Laws allowing the PM to appoint anyone he/she wishes to the Lords, and gives no reason (25 yo aide).
And that they get a PMs pension, for being in the job for 50 days (Truss). And give massive Contracts to people who cannot deliver them, yet they still got paid (covid). It is very near, if not corrupt. The greatest Democracy? I dont think so. And it isnt just the Tories, all Parties are at it.
alanl
We have just legalised corruption in the UK
Hard to notice if someone has resigned or not if they’d already quiet-quit years ago
I opened the thread wondering if, perhaps, someone had thumped her in the chops. Am very disappointed.
her daughter has probably thrown an fit as she now has to get a proper job.
Ah, you're familiar with the freeloading wastrel too then.
It’s the same with all of them. The whole MP thing just seems to be a side hustle to allow them access to the trough
Are there any Tory MPs who don’t now have a show on GeeBeebies?
Are there any Tory MPs who don’t now have a show on GeeBeebies?
Who knows? Who cares?
You have to be a **** to watch GB News, so it's safe to assume you vote Tory if you do. So no issue, really.
At least for now. If GBeebies achieves a critical mass, non-idiots may be in trouble.
She's finally reached the low enough level of poor performance that even Rishi has now had enough of her.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66382232
A friend pointed out that she has been 'resigning with immediate effect' for longer than Liz Truss served as PM! 😂😂
She’s finally reached the low enough level of poor performance that even Rishi has now had enough of her.
But yet the spineless little scroate doesn't actually do anything about it?
He could just withdraw the whip. If he doesn't shows how much the ERG/NatCs/New Cs and their like, still control him and the party.
He is just worried she is trying to get the byelection at the most damaging time so wants it over and done with.
I assume she is going to get the election just before the conference. So resign early September.
But yet the spineless little scroate doesn’t actually do anything about it?
Withdrawing the whip is pointless. Thats only useful in threatening people who want to stand for election again.
They may also have rules about when the whip can be withdrawn and "throwing a hissy fit and not actually resigning" is unlikely to be on the list.
sunak's comments fall a very long way short of the robust criticism dorries deserves.
It's yet another example of sunak's weakness and pathetic inability to demonstrate leadership.
Why has it taken him nearly two months to say anything abour dorries failure to truck off?
He may be wealthy but he is feeble.
Maybe she didn’t felate well with Boris
I would like to know what is *really* going on in her head...
...then again, perhaps not.
We are quite close to this being in Mid Beds. The Flitwick letter is quite mild as it had to be a collective response from the council. We are in a neighbouring town but didn’t do a letter as the town council wouldn’t agree to it. My wife, as Mayor, was interviewed about it on radio 4 on Sunday. What she said was mild but she is constrained by Mayors being neutral. However she got in a plug for the local Repair Cafe. It has forced the local conservative association to speak out against her for the first time. His words are mild as Rishi’s but it’s still a step in the right direction
There are 2 theories about why she didn’t go. The first is that being an MP gives her greater ability to investigate why she didn’t get a peerage. The other is that she wants to use resigning as a lever to publicise the new bill when it comes out.
Personally I think she is over thinking the peerage. She had the whip with drawn for doing reality tv show and not letting the party know, she wouldn’t show up to work for a month. That’s dismissal in any job and IMHO grounds for not getting a peerage
That’s dismissal in any other job or walk of life.
Fixed that bit. They're Teflon, this lot.
she is constrained by Mayors being neutral
if only she was a Major, she could have said what she wanted.
He may be wealthy but he is feeble.
This is all just cosplay for him. Same as Truss. They get to fly around on private planes between photo ops and pretend to be important, then when they're inevitably booted out, they just * off to America to make a fortune with their right wing chums
As for Dorres, she's been trolling the electorate for years now. Now she's just thought '* it!' and she's trolling her own party
I would like to know what is *really* going on in her head…
…then again, perhaps not.
Christ only knows what waking nightmares exist in there
*shudders*
There are 2 theories about why she didn’t go. The first is that being an MP gives her greater ability to investigate why she didn’t get a peerage. The other is that she wants to use resigning as a lever to publicise the new bill when it comes out.
Do her daughters still have their paid constituency jobs which they would lose if she stepped down?
Do her daughters still have their paid constituency jobs which they would lose if she stepped down?
I imagine they'll both lose their £40k+ salaries so no doubt that's why the useless ****ing blurt hasn't stepped down yet
Anyone just watched her on BBC breakfast?
I knew she was different but she's a complete fruit cake.
Just watched 30 seconds and had to switch over.
Another reason to be glad of no tellybox where we are staying this week.
Morning sickness is no fun.
I thought it was a presenter on Right-wing News,so what was it squawking about on the Beeb.