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BBC News - Tory MP Nadine Dorries quits Commons seat (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Tory MP Nadine Dorries resigns Commons seat, two months after promising to quit, telling PM "history will not judge you kindly"

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The resignation letter goes to town on Sunak. It is fairly evident she wanted to wait to create as much damage as she could before she left.

Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods,

This just shows how Tories think. The fact she is writing a letter that emphasizes the problems of the party, that will inevitably affect voting intentions, she wants to blame someone else for doing just that. Tories never see the hypocrisy of their own actions.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its the loss of livelihoods statement that gets me.

This isn't supposed to be your career its supposed to be an opportunity to represent the constituents of your area.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It is very evident a lot of MPs on all sides see their role as a meal ticket only. My own MP is nothing but a grifter imo. Unfortunately she is Labour.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The rise of the professional politician must be the worst thing to ever happen to democracy, in my view.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Goes to town on Sunak, bugs herself up and (rightly) lists no accomplishments she has achieved for her constituents. Utterly self-centered woman.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I was Starmer, or any opposition for that matter, I would really labour the truths stated in the letter. Many are fully aware of the games played in politics. It is hard to deny those games when your own side points them out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Very much agreed, although Dorries doesn’t seem the most stable of characters so I guess the risk is getting lumped in with the crazy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

“Immediate effect”; eleven weeks later.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a miserable turd.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

Err... Are you forgetting what your dear BoJo did to the office of PM? Or Cabbage Truss.... stability of the economy? F'ing deluded. She's havin' a laff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the loss of their livelihoods

i really feel like somebody who's in the job of mp because of the salary should absolutely not be an mp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I mean it's fine if they need the money. Don't want only rich people being MPs.

Her statement is so tone deaf though. MPs are well paid and get pretty reasonable "loss of office" payments for their transition out if they contest and lose a election.

As if the couple of hundred tory MPs (most of whom are well off anyway) are anywhere near to the top of the victim list!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Fuckity bye

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Two months is more wrong than saying three months. Don’t minimise the woman’s wage theft; it was almost three months (which is what? £20k at an MPs salary?).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Plus expenses.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

She accused the prime minister of abandoning "the fundamental principles of Conservatism".

That would be the principle of sucking up to the PM enough to get a cushy House of Lords seat and be paid for the rest of your life for doing fuck all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nadine Dorries has resigned her Commons seat, two months after promising to quit "with immediate effect".

She launched a blistering attack on Rishi Sunak in her resignation statement, saying "history will not judge you kindly".

The Mid Bedfordshire MP first announced her intention to resign on 14 June.

She accused the prime minister of abandoning "the fundamental principles of Conservatism".

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