Archive for nadine dorries
Cameron’s cunning plan: to get Nadine Dorries to vote for her own abolition
Paul Goodman has been taking a look at the implausible maths behind the slim hopes some in the Conservative Party still have about getting the new Parliamentary boundaries through Parliament. As he concludes, even on the most optimistic of assumptions, it requires every single Conservative MP to back the proposals. Even one who, say, isn’t [...]
Sad news about Nadine Dorries
Oh dear. RT @jameschappers: Source: whip is to be withdrawn from Nadine Dorries until she can explain herself in face-to-face meeting with Chief Whip — Mark Pack (@markpack) November 6, 2012 If a civil servant said ‘I’m going on TV, so sod the job, I won’t be turning up for a few weeks’ plenty of [...]
Nadine Dorries comes to Nick Clegg’s aid
A few days ago, Nick Clegg’s special advisor Richard Reeves sent a bunch of flowers to Conservative MP Nadine Dorries as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying ‘thank you’ for her comments about the Liberal Democrats. Liberal Democrats like nothing more than hearing Dorries complain about Liberal Democrat influence on the Government. Reeves should be hot-footing [...]
Nadine Dorries and the flowers
Richard Reeves, one of Nick Clegg’s Special Advisors, can have a rather wicked sense of humour, as he’s just demonstrated: Nadine Dorries’ very vocal condemnations of the Lib Dems’ influence on the Coalition have won her many fans among grassroots Tories. But it looks like she’s also won praise from another quarter: the Lib Dems [...]
Theresa May succeeds where Nadine Dorries failed
As I quipped during Liberal Democrat conference, one of the most popular Conservative MPs with party activists is Nadine Dorries, courtesy of that question at PMQs. Today Home Secretary Theresa May has shown rather more political skill in making a very similar point. Talking to the Sunday Telegraph, she’s said that “personally” she would “like” [...]
PMQs: Nadine Dorries praises Nick Clegg, in a good way
Also on YouTube here.
“Nick Clegg to vote against abortion counselling law”
So reports The Guardian: Nick Clegg is on Wednesday planning to vote against a cross-party amendment, tabled by socially conservative MPs, that would strip abortion providers of their counselling role. In the most high-profile parliamentary debate on abortion since the general election, the deputy prime minister will lead a series of Liberal Democrat and Tory [...]
I guess Nadine Dorries didn’t really notice the bill she repeatedly voted on
On her blog the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries recently wrote, For those who may not know – you become a ‘prospective candidate’ from the moment of selection until the legal election period begins which is when you transfer to being a candidate. You cannot be a candidate from selection because if you do call yourself such, [...]
Nadine Dorries has me confused
Exhibit A: “I would also like to state that every word written on my blog is absolutely true.” Exhibit B: “My blog is 70% fiction and 30% fact. It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire. I rely heavily [...]
Parliamentarians in the news
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says her blog was ’70% fiction’ – The Guardian. Surely the weirdest successful defence against expense allegations we’ll see. Two Labour and one cross-bench peer have been suspended for breaking expense rules. David Cameron’s former aide Andrew MacKay has been told to apologise for breaking expense rules (he and his wife [...]
