I am an MP get me out of here.....

[????]

......do these people have no clue? Absolutely unbelievable behaviour.

[StraferJack]

It's not as if that particular one hasn't shown signs before

She's an idiot. But the reaction of her party has been swift and correct

Nothing to see here

[woodrot]

wassit about ?

[steveo]

At least that other self seeking twat Lembit waited until he lost his seat

[woodrot]

ah...her

"Ms Dorries said she wanted to use her appearance on the reality show to raise awareness of issues she is interested in, such as reducing the time limit on abortions from 24 weeks to 20 weeks."

scum.

[steveo]

They've withdrawn the whip instead of applying it

[*Bob*]

Are you saying that effectively serving the needs of your constituency - and eating kangaroo testicles in exchange for ITV telephone votes 11,000 miles away - are incompatible?

Say it ain't so.

[woodrot]

She should be thrown to the fucking salties. awful harridan.

[womanofdulwich]

She has obviously decided to jack in politics or knows her days are numbered and has decided to become a "personality" now,which will be her future career.

Pathetic. I hope whe will not be drawing an MP's salary while in the jungle.

[katie1997]

nnnnnnnnn.

unfuckingbelievable. I despair.

[the-e-dealer]

She is a waste of space. Gets elected decided to jack it in after 2 years then carries on but does a different job instead. By Election Material!

[Otta]

I think she's being clever to be honest. And as she says, how many people watch BBC Parliament and PM's questions, and how many watch Get me out of here? She will have a platform from which to preach to millions.

Next year there will be an MP from each party, mark my words!

[red devil]

Otta Wrote:

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> She will have a platform from which to

> preach to millions.

The programme is heavily edited. If she's not careful she could come across as a moronic attention seeking bint*...

*Copyright: Maxxi Put Downs Inc.

[Chillaxed]

Otta's right, this is the way politics is going. Unfortunately.

[StraferJack]

"Otta's right, this is the way politics is going. Unfortunately."

I disagree on two counts

1 ) there won't be one from each party in there next year

2 ) if it DOES go down that road then it won't be politics to blame - it'll be the public. If Dorries is correct and people don't bother with "the dry stuff" and they prefer them in IACGMOOH, then it's not the politicians at fault ultimately

I think what will happen is the public will ridicule her, not "listen" to her, just as they did Galloway

[Chillaxed]

Firstly, not sure that acronym is going to catch on.

Secondly, I agree it's the public's fault; we get what we deserve.

[KidKruger]

she's obviously hoping to knob David Haye the hunk boxer.

[StraferJack]

"Firstly, not sure that acronym is going to catch on. "

heh - touch?

[womanofdulwich]

From the Indie

"Conservative MP Nadine Dorries.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has already arrived in Australia in preparation for her appearance on I?m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

While David Cameron is unlikely to mind losing Nadine Dorries to the Australian jungle for up to a month as the Conservative MP competes in I?m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, the public (not least her Bedfordshire constituents) might take a different view. Dorries, who has already arrived in Queensland for the show, has refused to forego her parliamentary salary for the period, meaning that she'll receive as much as ?5,478 during her time on the programme (as well as expenses of around ?3,218), in addition to a fee of up to ?40,000."

When I worked full time I was allowed 2 weeks paid leave in one go maximum. maybe 3 weeks if getting married.

How can she get away with this? Surely she has to ask someone first? If Parliament cannot manage this then there should be an independent panel - preferably including people that work for companies as diverse as Ryanair and Poundland to oversee their employment contracts and explain you cannot walk away from the poeple you represent like this- she didn't even tell her constituency. We know from Louise Mencher that leaving employment as an MP is not possible- its time to overhaul it. Especially their pensions !

[Fabricio the Guido]

Let's call it the "Boris effect". Leadership throughout history has always been about personality as much as the values or ideas espoused by a candidate. The problem with the modern age is that the currency of ideas is in decline and it is replaced by the cult of celebrity. This is not a rant about how celebrity culture is ruining our values, it is an attempt to plot the relationship between these ideas. As much as I try and avoid the traditionalist who thump on and on about values and tradition, I can see some of the processes they describe when I see a politician like Boris bereft of ideas but comfortably floating on the cloud of public adoration.

American elections case in point. I wanted Obama to win but I wouldn't have been entirely surprised if Romney had won. He insulted his electorate but expected them to vote for him because he told them he could fix the economy with his experience and a bag full of tricksy tax cuts he couldn't explain.

I am trying to think about the Prince, and I am sure he says you should always tell people what they want to hear. I paraphrase inelegantly, of course.

Yep, celebrity cult, sound and fury without content.

[the-e-dealer]

You can leave as an mp. Just resign and take the Chiltern hundreds

[Otta]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> "Otta's right, this is the way politics is going.

> Unfortunately."

>

> I disagree on two counts

>

> 1 ) there won't be one from each party in there

> next year

>

> 2 ) if it DOES go down that road then it won't be

> politics to blame - it'll be the public. If

> Dorries is correct and people don't bother with

> "the dry stuff" and they prefer them in IACGMOOH,

> then it's not the politicians at fault ultimately

>

> I think what will happen is the public will

> ridicule her, not "listen" to her, just as they

> did Galloway

1. I was joking about there being one from every party there next year.

2. Totally agree, public includes many a moron.

I hope she goes on about "20 weeks", and I hope someone there argues well with her and makes her look like the tw@t she undoubtedly is.

[maxxi]

red devil Wrote:

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> The programme is heavily edited. If she's not

> careful she could come across as a moronic

> attention seeking bint*...

>

> *Copyright: Maxxi Put Downs Inc.

Wha-?!? If I have ever been so unkind I will; nod sagely/grin smugly/hang my head in shame*

@SJ - I like it now I see it written down - I am already thinking of the new series as Ya-caga-moo (phonetic acronym dept)

[red devil]

maxxi Wrote:

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> Wha-?!? If I have ever been so unkind I will; nod

> sagely/grin smugly/hang my head in shame*

Do a search on bint and it comes up with me, you and Otta :)

[Fabricio the Guido]

Blaming the public? Hang on, leaders set standards and the common folk follow their example. My goodness I am on the verge of a daily mail critique. Going to mull over this for a moment and think about what I want to say.

1. I really do think there has been a decline during the course of history.

2. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

3. Everybody can be a hero, turned into nobody is a hero, which turned into there is no such thing, then we have problems. thinking about Carlye here rather than comparing the prince with the courtier.

3. is there a left critique of consumer culture and celebrity culture, disposable culture with out harking back to standards ?