THAT'S LIFE NADINE, THAT'S LIFE!

That Nadine Dorries is a complete fruit cake, no-one would dispute. She was the one who told us that MPs had been instructed to use their £24,000 allowance as salary in lieu of a pay increase, without it occurring to her that, should that have been the case they might well have been expected, like us ordinary mortals, to pay income tax on it!!!! Then she compared the completely reasonable investigation by the Daily Telegraph into MPs’ expenses, with the McCarthy Witch Hunts, saying that MPs were being driven to breakdowns and suicide because of it. (What a joke! The stupid woman should have known nearly everyone would get off scot free.)

In January this year, it was announced that she was being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over her second home expenses and that there were a number of her neighbours queuing up to give evidence against her.

She recently took part in a reality tv show, despite having a full time job as an MP, where she was supposed to live in a council estate with only dole money to get her through, but was found to have secreted a £50 note in her undergarments, thus completely defeating the point of the show, and demonstrating horrific disrespect both to the project and to unemployed people in general.

We now, the bam pot has got stuck into Esther Rantzen who is standing as a clean up politics independent in Luton South. Dorries’ friend, Stephen Rhodes is standing against Ms Rantzen in the constituency, and she has pitched in calling Ms Rantzen a self publicist who has a scant understanding of politics.

Jeez, sometimes you think you’ve heard it all, then Nadine Dorries pops up again to brighten the day.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Dorries said: “I am afraid that Esther’s bid at politics is a rather transparent attempt to eject [sic] herself into the public eye once again, and probably to get some work on the back of it. Politics isn’t showbiz, it’s life.”

Ha ha. “That’s Life” Dorries you twerp. I wonder if she realized what she said. Somehow I doubt it. She strikes me as terminally dim.

Right. I’m no fan of Esther Rantzen, but whatever you say about her she has worked in consumer rights for many years with “That’s Life”, and over the last 20 years she has been closely associated with Child Line, a charity which takes calls from and aims to help children who have been bullied, or abused. Additionally she has campaigned for the recognition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and work for people suffering deafness.

I suspect, therefore, that Esther Rantzen has forgotten more about the issues that ordinary people care about than the idiot Dorries, who seems to be a self publicist of the worst sort and not particularly in touch with the world outside her own head.

I dare say that Ms Rantzen will survive attacks from the likes of Nadine Dorries from whom criticism is a joke. But it’s the poor people of Luton South I feel sorry for. It is currently represented by Margaret Moran, a Labour MP forced to stand down at the next election over her expense claims despite her original intention to sue the backside off the Telegraph for the monstrous allegations leveled against her. Hum... I wonder what happened there then.....

The likelihood is that the arrival of Ms Dorries’ friend will split the independent vote leaving the way open for a Labour or Tory MP. I think that for all Nadine’s caterwauling Esther Rantzen would have made a good MP, as did Martin Bell. Once again it’s the people who lose out.


Picured: Nadine Dorries (top left) in the House of Commons but dressed for an afternoon’s shopping and (bottom right) Esther Rantzen.

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