She's served her purpose, they don't now want her drunkenly foaming at the mouth, as it were, on the red benches.
So why is the Haunted Victorian Pencil not standing down as a MP?
Hasn't he been put in the HoL?
No, he was knighted.
Sums up Boris and his mates. Outraged because they aren’t being allowed to bend the rules to suit themselves
Not so much bending the rules as snapping them in half, setting fire to them, then putting them out with a shovel
Its a joy to behold seeing them have a massive hissy fit because they can't just do what the hell they like any more. They're like a bunch of toddlers, throwing their toys around
So why is the Haunted Victorian Pencil not standing down as a MP?
I think he wants to be PM.
I think given the track record, the only people that really know what went down are those directly involved.
The rest if us can merely speculate based on whatever they choose to say publicly.
And again given the track record of misdirection and sometimes outright lies, it's arguably not even worth speculating.
She has not stood down yet meaning if she does then the bye election cannot be held on the same day as the other two- and the theory is that this is deliberate to cause more trouble for Sunak as she will formally resign later
Talk on the radio this morning was she's staying so she can dole out dirt on other MPs next week under parliamentary privilege immunity.
No 10 now making noise about mad nad being (deliberately) slow in formally submitting her resignation.
bye election
I like this typo but I’d like to make it a bye bye election 😀
Something tells me that mad nad's quest for the truth isn't going to give her the answers she wants. But I'm glad she's publicising the process for our amusement.
Hmmm……
So she is definitely going to resign.
After her Subject Access Requests are provided and she has time to read them
Well I am glad thats cleared up.
Adopt a Tory at the end of their life
https://twitter.com/desertrose1969/status/1668899445054873602?s=46&t=qvPR6lBfBXtAWZ-6beFWyA
Don't think she'll be getting much back from her SARs relating to discussions around a peerage - she's using the right of access under GDPR except the Data Protection Act 2018 says
So it is a delaying tactic then...I suspect she is going to go radio rental in the Commons and have a huge verbal clear out...and once she has finished with that, she'll chuck her resignation letter in and saunter off thinking she has won.
So it is a delaying tactic then
It would seem to be although not because of that law as thats the sort of attention to detail that isnt to be expected from this rabble.
I hope she doubles down and tries human rights act next.
She barely bothers to turn up at the commons, her TV job more important
It's her hypocrisy that's amazing, even more amazingly shed probably get re-elected if she stood again in her very tory constituency
https://twitter.com/edwinhayward/status/1668569306940973057?s=19
She accused the prime minister of abandoning "the fundamental principles of Conservatism"
Just because he doesn't necessarily need to line his own pockets doesn't mean he's not helping his mates do the same.
Anyway, she's received close to £100k without uttering a word in parliament. Top Torying, that.
She doesn’t like Sunak much does she?.
Her resignation letter is roughly half bigging herself up and the other half being nasty about him
I wonder if the PM reply will thanks her for all her hard work and effort these past months as tends to be the way of thank you letters from PMs...
According to the Guardian…
In a letter to Rishi Sunak, Dorries accused the prime minister of putting her personal safety at risk by “whipping a public frenzy against her” and disclosed that police had visited her home last week, warning her about a threat to her security
Obviously people disliking her couldn’t have been anything to do with her behaviour? Of course not. It’s all Rishi’s fault apparently
Her resignation letter, 🤣🤣🤣
I knew she was deluded but that's a whole new level. All because she didn't get her peerage for sucking up to/(insert horrible mental image here) Boris Johnson.
When is the by-election then, should be interesting.
I’ve just read her resignation letter in full
Absolutely batshit crazy!!! 😂
Is there anyone from Boris’ government that isn’t either a nutcase or a complete git?
As a few pundits predicted when she didnt hand in the formal notice.
Seems to be intended to put it just before the tory conference.
Possibly also intended to annoy the libdems given their conference week is the 20th September.
Is there anyone from Boris’ government that isn’t either a nutcase or a complete git?
If you count all the junior ministers etc then maybe, just maybe.
I wouldnt be able to name one though and I would want good odds before putting money on it.
She added: "Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy".
Seems unfair to level that accusation at Sunak - the rot had already set in with Johnson.
Mad nad indeed.
sunak can:
1. reply with the usual bland letter
2. not issue any response
3. challenge and rebut her comments
He is a weak politicuan and PM so...it will be option 1.
The real tragedy with Nadine is what she became. She has a shite life in her early years and despite massive adversity managed to really achieve that mythical chimera that all Tories pretend to subscribe to - social mobility. Her misfortune was to be sucked (!!!) up into the Bojo temporal misinformation field and it destroyed her. She has been roundly abused by the etonian elite but she was never one of them and probably there is a tiny shred of a real person in there right now who is wondering what happened.
If she's wondering what happened - she took a decision which inexorably shredded what reputation she had previously.
She will not be remembered for anything good she did; she will be forever tainted by her association with johnson who was known to be a lying, duplicitous, selfish, egotistical liar well before she hitched her horse to his wagon
Just because he doesn’t necessarily need to line his own pockets doesn’t mean he’s not helping his mates do the same.
I reckon it is probably fair to claim that if Sunak is helping his wife to increase her vast wealth he is also lining his own pocket. Although admittedly he doesn't actually need to.
Rishi Sunak faces a new conflict of interest row before a G20 summit in New Delhi next month over claims that his family could stand to benefit financially from a post-Brexit trade deal that he is negotiating with India.
The latest controversy comes after the prime minister was reprimanded last week by parliament’s standard’s watchdog for failing to properly declare his wife’s separate shareholding in a childcare company that stood to benefit from new government policy.
#gonads
That took me back.
sunak may as well just have sacked her, she was always going to slag him off, now he just has to ignore it
sunak may as well just have sacked her, she was always going to slag him off, now he just has to ignore it
He couldnt really.
His only immediate option would be to withdraw the whip which means sod all for someone who is slowly getting round to resigning.
The only thing aside from that would be the experimental option the libdems were pushing for about trying to get her suspended under code of conduct and hence trigger a recall election. I doubt that would have got sufficient support from the tories and some other party mps would likely feel a bit uneasy about it.
Is there anyone from Boris’ government that isn’t either a nutcase or a complete git?
Yes, there's Priti Patel
She's a nutcase and a complete git
Just because you're from a poor background and worked your way up doesn't mean you're not a horrible person.
having grown up in the constituency next door, I can see the seat easily staying Tory
Are her staff (children) going to get redundancy payments?
having grown up in the constituency next door, I can see the seat easily staying Tory
Her constituency has a massive Tory majority and falls into one of those where you could stick a blue rosette on a cows arse and it’d get elected.
I see the narrative is already being written that if Labour fails to take it then it’s a vote of confidence in Rishi, which is clearly total bollocks. I can see if staying Tory but with a reduced majority as Tory voters stay at home rather than vote for another party
Is there anyone from Boris’ government that isn’t either a nutcase or a complete git?
This'll be an unpopular answer, but Michael Gove apparently. Because of Gove's competence, Johnson felt obliged to give him a cabinet role even though he'd never forgiven him for scuppering his first attempt at becoming PM. I've heard a few others who've worked for him say that he's a decent boss, even if you don't agree with his aims.
