Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage

HAYSIE

Nadine Dorries Left Red-Faced After Attack On Rishi Sunak Backfires





Nadine Dorries thought she had Rishi Sunak bang to rights.

Nadine Dorries has been left red-faced after her latest attack on Rishi Sunak backfired spectacularly.

The former cabinet minister thought Harriet Harman had dropped the prime minister in it when she revealed the government had given her the green light to continue as chair of the privileges committee investigating Boris Johnson.

Harman said she wanted to avoid the “perception” that she was biased against the former PM because of tweets she had previously posted about partygate.

She said she was “assured that I should continue the work ... so I did just that”.

Dorries - a close ally of Johnson - tweeted this afternoon that “Harman’s speech was very revealing and effectively threw No10 under a bus”.

She added: “It implied, that despite the fact that she had already tweeted in advance of the hearings that Johnson was guilty, that she had the full backing of the PM and therefore the Gov to chair the committee.”




However, it seemed to have escaped the former culture secretary’s notice that at the time Harman approached the government last year, the prime minister was still Johnson himself – a fact gleefully pointed out by Twitter users.

Dorries’s aborted political assassination came barely a week after she accused Sunak and fellow “posh boy” James Forsyth, the PM’s political secretary, of blocking Johnson’s attempt to give her a peerage.

But despite saying she was resigning as an MP for Mid Bedfordshire “with immediate effect” in protest, she has yet to formally quit.


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nadine-dorries-left-red-faced-182928698.html

HAYSIE

Not the sharpest tool.

HAYSIE

Nadine Dorries ‘completely gave up on job as MP’ long before announcing exit



https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/nadine-dorries-completely-gave-up-on-job-as-mp-long-before-announcing-exit/ar-AA1cTHGl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=597a5bbacddf4370a396e7757133521c&ei=31

Essexphil

Detest this sort of attack against MPs. By that, I mean against individual MPs. As opposed to the lot of them.

There is no requirement whatsoever for an MP ever to actually turn up for work. Surprising. But true.

Similarly, more than 100 MPs have official 2nd jobs (quite apart from the additional one-off fees they all get). So, for example, Geoffrey Cox MP has earned millions of pounds as a Barrister while also an MP. Was at 1 point the Attorney General-a 3rd job-with, apparently, no conflict of interest being effectively both Counsel and Judge. All the while being embroiled in a lengthy dispute with HMRC in relation to aggressive tax avoidance and/or evasion, which he claims was not "deliberate".

And, as mentioned before, there used to be information publicly available as to how often MPs turned up. But this has been abolished. By a vote of MPs.

HAYSIE

Essexphil said:

Detest this sort of attack against MPs. By that, I mean against individual MPs. As opposed to the lot of them.

There is no requirement whatsoever for an MP ever to actually turn up for work. Surprising. But true.

Similarly, more than 100 MPs have official 2nd jobs (quite apart from the additional one-off fees they all get). So, for example, Geoffrey Cox MP has earned millions of pounds as a Barrister while also an MP. Was at 1 point the Attorney General-a 3rd job-with, apparently, no conflict of interest being effectively both Counsel and Judge. All the while being embroiled in a lengthy dispute with HMRC in relation to aggressive tax avoidance and/or evasion, which he claims was not "deliberate".

And, as mentioned before, there used to be information publicly available as to how often MPs turned up. But this has been abolished. By a vote of MPs.

Difficult to see why she would be moaning over a Peerage.
She hasnt spoken for 343 days.
Voted 6 times this year.
Nobody knows where her constituency office is, whether she even has one or not, or if she ever has a constituency surgery.
A good role model well deserving of a Peerage?
I thought the first story was really funny.

Essexphil

HAYSIE said:

Essexphil said:

Detest this sort of attack against MPs. By that, I mean against individual MPs. As opposed to the lot of them.

There is no requirement whatsoever for an MP ever to actually turn up for work. Surprising. But true.

Similarly, more than 100 MPs have official 2nd jobs (quite apart from the additional one-off fees they all get). So, for example, Geoffrey Cox MP has earned millions of pounds as a Barrister while also an MP. Was at 1 point the Attorney General-a 3rd job-with, apparently, no conflict of interest being effectively both Counsel and Judge. All the while being embroiled in a lengthy dispute with HMRC in relation to aggressive tax avoidance and/or evasion, which he claims was not "deliberate".

And, as mentioned before, there used to be information publicly available as to how often MPs turned up. But this has been abolished. By a vote of MPs.

Difficult to see why she would be moaning over a Peerage.
She hasnt spoken for 343 days.
Voted 6 times this year.
Nobody knows where her constituency office is, whether she even has one or not, or if she ever has a constituency surgery.
A good role model well deserving of a Peerage?
I thought the first story was really funny.

I watched Question Time last night. The Government refused to provide any Member of the Cabinet. So Sir John Redwood was wheeled out.

He's 72. He last held any sort of office in 2001. He's still an MP. Has several other jobs, which give him a considerably higher salary than being an MP. Manages to talk about how wonderful Brexit is. On the TV a lot. The House of Commons? Not so much. But we are not allowed to know how little.

Yet, when it suits this Govt, we are allowed to know about the attendance of people they choose.

HAYSIE

Essexphil said:

HAYSIE said:

Essexphil said:

Detest this sort of attack against MPs. By that, I mean against individual MPs. As opposed to the lot of them.

There is no requirement whatsoever for an MP ever to actually turn up for work. Surprising. But true.

Similarly, more than 100 MPs have official 2nd jobs (quite apart from the additional one-off fees they all get). So, for example, Geoffrey Cox MP has earned millions of pounds as a Barrister while also an MP. Was at 1 point the Attorney General-a 3rd job-with, apparently, no conflict of interest being effectively both Counsel and Judge. All the while being embroiled in a lengthy dispute with HMRC in relation to aggressive tax avoidance and/or evasion, which he claims was not "deliberate".

And, as mentioned before, there used to be information publicly available as to how often MPs turned up. But this has been abolished. By a vote of MPs.

Difficult to see why she would be moaning over a Peerage.
She hasnt spoken for 343 days.
Voted 6 times this year.
Nobody knows where her constituency office is, whether she even has one or not, or if she ever has a constituency surgery.
A good role model well deserving of a Peerage?
I thought the first story was really funny.

I watched Question Time last night. The Government refused to provide any Member of the Cabinet. So Sir John Redwood was wheeled out.

He's 72. He last held any sort of office in 2001. He's still an MP. Has several other jobs, which give him a considerably higher salary than being an MP. Manages to talk about how wonderful Brexit is. On the TV a lot. The House of Commons? Not so much. But we are not allowed to know how little.

Yet, when it suits this Govt, we are allowed to know about the attendance of people they choose.

Hard to imagine, when we are world leaders in just about everything, if you listen to them.

HAYSIE

Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nadine-dorries-faces-investigation-threatening-111909818.html

Essexphil

HAYSIE said:

Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nadine-dorries-faces-investigation-threatening-111909818.html

I expect better from the better newspapers. Story goes like this:-

1. Headline about Dorries "threatening civil servants"
2. First half of article referring to taking legal advice about whether she broke the Law-so Case has decided to approach the Speaker/Chief Whip instead. Together with seeking "further legal advice"-in other words, seeking 2nd/3rd opinion cos he doesn't like the first/second ones
3. Towards the end, finally get around to saying that the advice said she had not, and her "threats" appeared to be SAR requests, and in her version of events she had written to precisely 1 Civil Servant-the correct one. Case.

Meanwhile, Sunak loyalists are demanding she is suspended for daring to try and ascertain why she was denied a Peerage.

I can't stand Dorries. But even she deserves better than this.

HAYSIE

Essexphil said:

HAYSIE said:

Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nadine-dorries-faces-investigation-threatening-111909818.html

I expect better from the better newspapers. Story goes like this:-

1. Headline about Dorries "threatening civil servants"
2. First half of article referring to taking legal advice about whether she broke the Law-so Case has decided to approach the Speaker/Chief Whip instead. Together with seeking "further legal advice"-in other words, seeking 2nd/3rd opinion cos he doesn't like the first/second ones
3. Towards the end, finally get around to saying that the advice said she had not, and her "threats" appeared to be SAR requests, and in her version of events she had written to precisely 1 Civil Servant-the correct one. Case.

Meanwhile, Sunak loyalists are demanding she is suspended for daring to try and ascertain why she was denied a Peerage.

I can't stand Dorries. But even she deserves better than this.

I cant stand her.
I am sure that she must have had a Boris baby on the quiet.

HAYSIE

Nadine Dorries reported to speaker over ‘forceful’ emails about peerage


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/nadine-dorries-reported-to-speaker-over-forceful-emails-about-peerage/ar-AA1dLB9j?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2e6539ccfd0548bb9d9708100fa515d0&ei=12