Nadine Dorries to stand down as MP

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  1. > Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has announced she is standing down as an MP.

    > The former culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson said she was standing down “with immediate effect” and it was “time for someone younger to take the reins”.

    > It means there will be a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency, where she has a majority of 24,664.

    > Ms Dorries had already said she would not stand at the next general election. It comes ahead of the publication of Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list, which is expected later.

    > Ms Dorries had been expected to be nominated for an honour and to stand down to accept the peerage.

    > However, later reports suggested she had been dropped from the list to avoid triggering a by-election.
    Asked about the reports earlier on Friday, she told TalkTV: “The last thing I would want to do is cause a by-election in my constituency. I don’t believe I will be going into the House of Lords any time soon,” she said, adding that she had not been contacted by anybody in No 10 about the honours list.

    > Last month, she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme she had “never officially been told” she was getting a peerage and had only seen a leak to a newspaper.

  2. I wonder what she’s done to be standing down immediately, and not at the next election. Not usual for someone like her to not stick around for the remaining year and a bit she has to rake in the MP’s salary and expenses.

  3. Was she on course to lose her seat? Would be interesting to see the results of a by-election

  4. Well, the average IQ in the House of Commons might be low, but it has at least just got a boost.

  5. Umm. She has done something. Or she has been pushed. Or this is a play by Boris to panic the Tories.

    She is in a 23k majority. If the Tories lose a by election there would be a huge panic about Sunak.

    Or she had anal sex with Boris and they are on the WhatsApp he shared

  6. I would absolutely love it if it turns out that either:

    – She submitted her resignation thinking she was getting the HoL nod and then found out too late she wasn’t (as when it was initially announced Sunak was giving Boris his resignation honours it wasn’t mentioned that this was excluding some like Dorries and his dad).

    – Sunak removed her from the honours list, partly/mainly motivated by the desire to prevent a by-election so she has given him a by-election out of spite.

  7. To think this fuckwit came close to selling off Channel 4.. the last 7 years have felt like a fever dream of Tory lunacy

  8. She stood down as a human being many years ago.

    Lets be shot of people like her. The only credibility she’s ever had was that afford by the office she slithered into. Not by aptitude, ability, public service ethos or any other trait.

    May she enjoy the obscurity she truly deserves.

  9. Oh no the Boris Johnson fanclub just lost their most prominent sycophant, er sorry I mean MP.

    Seriously good riddance, the more of the shameless arse kissers quit the better.

  10. I see. Their are a shit load of Tory MP’s who have made an absolute killing over the last few years and especially brexit. She and they realise that the time is up and are packing it in for retirement. I hope the fucking lot’s dirrt little secrets are found out and they are all prosecuted.

  11. As a former constituent, good riddance.

    Sadly for the people of mid-Beds, worse may be coming down the line.

    Make way for the clown.

  12. I assumed that would’ve happened from the get go when she started acting as a TalkTV ‘presenter’ – though I use that term ever so loosely…

  13. Like the cunt that she is, she’s done it to force a by election which the tories will lose. She’s just done out of spite to put Sunak on the spot. She knew she was blocked by no.10 for Baronetcy.

  14. Well it looks like poor old Nadine is set to leave parliament as stupidly as she entered it. So long, you dumb fuckwit.

  15. It’s made me smile that neither Sunak (no by-election) nor Dorries (a seat in the Lords) achieved their objective. Classic Tory mismanagement yet again!

  16. If we lived in a meritocracy Nadine Dorries would be the most useless person in a mediocre company no one had heard of.

    But we don’t so I’m sure she will continue to fall upwards.

  17. I was so happy to hear this I almost came in my pants. But then her face appeared in my brain and that put a stop to that.

  18. Right, if her and Johnson go off and form the National Conservatives I’m going to leave the country before they’re somehow bafflingly elected

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