And actual people voted for her to be their MP. That’s scary.
I’ve never read Harry Potter but it sounds like she may have.
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Former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has not yet officially resigned as an MP, putting a by-election to replace her on hold - to the frustration of the Conservative Party.
Last Friday, Ms Dorries - a close ally of Mr Johnson - said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat, with immediate effect. > But she is yet to tender her official resignation. This is done by writing to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
The Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - wanted to conclude swift campaigns before Parliament’s summer recess and for any political pain from the by-elections to be short and sharp. But if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting, she could force them into a potentially divisive by-election later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.
And in the meantime, as she remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known. Anything she says would be covered by parliamentary privilege, allowing her to be outspoken on any issue, without fear of legal consequences.
The report on whether Mr Johnson misled MPs over lockdown parties is expected to be published later this week and debated by MPs soon after. If she so chooses, Ms Dorries could take part in that debate. It is not clear what her intentions are, though.
Will she 
or will she 
This is very funny, Dorries said she would resign in support of Johnson - probably expected a great avalanche of similar tory MP resignations. No doubt expecting this because Johnson told her this was going to happen. Or lied to her as we more accurately describe the verb. And dozy Dorries believed him and started shouting about resigning. Oops. Bit premature Nadine.
Or did Johnson promise her that peerage … oops. Promise. Lie. Same thing, no?
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Nadine Dorries has missed the deadline to resign in order for a by-election to take place in her constituency before Parliament’s summer recess. The Conservative MP said on 9 June she would stand down from her Mid Bedfordshire seat with immediate effect, but has not yet formally done so.
In order for a poll to take place on 20 July, a writ to the returning officer should have been sent by 21 June. The BBC understands it is still technically possible for a by-election to take place over the summer if Ms Dorries resigns in the next month.
“Mad Nads” is, apparently, all talk and no trousers … 
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I rather think it is a deliberate action by her to embarrass the Government by having two byelection days, twice the bad news over a longer period.
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Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed she will “definitely be gone” as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire before the next general election.
Ms Dorries said the reason she had not yet stood down, despite announcing she was doing so on 9 June, was due to some outstanding documents.
“I’ll be gone long before the next general election,” she said on Talk TV, during an interview with Vanessa Feltz.
Speaking to Ms Feltz, the close ally of Mr Johnson, spoke about the committee of MPs which recently found he misled Parliament over Covid breaches at No 10. (1)
The polling by Opinium, seen by the Telegraph, will shock nervy Tory MPs, many of whom have already announced they are standing down at the next election likely to dodge an embarrassing defeat.
A fresh YouGov poll last week found support for Rishi Sunak’s party had fallen to 22% - the lowest its been in four months and only three points higher than its lowest this parliament after Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget.
It showed 47% of people are in favour of Keir Starmer’s party, giving him a 25-point lead, as Brits lose faith in Mr Sunak’s government in the wake of soaring inflation and the continuing cost of living crisis.
That would be somewhat embarrassing for “Slippery” Sunak … 
Embarrassing for Dorries too as it confirms that those she served in her constituency have not been impressed. Nadine, no-one is impressed with you.
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Nadine Dorries last spoke in the House of Commons on the 7th July 2022, when she was the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and was speaking about support for leisure centres in the cost of living crisis.
In that time LBC analysis has shown that she may have earned £144,538.91.
Ms Dorries earned:
- £84,754 in her capacity as a Member of Parliament
- A Ministerial Salary during the ‘interim’ government of Boris Johnson of £11,281.66 for 61 days work
- A partial advance for a new book from Harper Collins of £20,500 for work between April and May of this year
- Royalties of £10,647 in royalties for book sales
Meanwhile, if Ms Dorries claimed her ministerial severance package that would equate to an additional £16,876.25 – giving a total combined remuneration – since she last spoke in Parliament – of £144,538.91.
“Shirker” Dorries is not in the MP earnings super-league - an extra month or two of salary will come in handy. It’s no wonder that “Mad Nads” is hanging on.
That figure is expected to rise further, as the Mid Bedfordshire MP has not so-far declared any earnings from her work as a presenter at TalkTV and a weekly columnist at the Daily Mail.
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Oh Gawd, is the silly moo still hanging in in there?
Come on girl, get your snout out that trough, you did promise……
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Boris Johnson super-fan Nadine Dorries will publish a book settling scores over his downfall just three days before the Tories’ annual conference. The former Culture Secretary - who was named in a bombshell report for trying to undermine Parliament’s Partygate probe - continues to maintain the ex-PM was wrongly removed. She claims the “darkest political arts” run through the Tory Party. Her book, named The Plot, is described as a “story of treachery and deceit” by publisher HarperCollins. She claims to have discovered a “fault line” and a “history of deception” within the party as she takes aim at those she blames for Mr Johnson’s removal.
it is likely to make uncomfortable reading for Mr Sunak, who Ms Dorries has repeatedly lambasted since her mentor’s departure from No10. According to a statement released this morning, the book will tell how the “most charismatic politician of his generation” was “driven from office” and is supposedly based on the testimony of “dozens of inside sources”.
A statement by the publisher says: “This is a story of treachery and deceit at the heart of the Westminster machine fuelled by an obsessive pursuit of power which tears at the very fabric of our democracy.”
Ms Dorries said: “When I started this book I had no idea of the journey I was embarking on. But the more people I spoke to in the heart of Westminster, the deeper the story unfolded. I had wanted to discover the forces behind the downfall of the Prime Minister. Instead, I found a fault line within the Conservative Party stretching back decades and a history of deception fuelled by the darkest political arts. If you thought power flowed from the people into Parliament, be prepared to think again.”
It will be released on September 28.
So that’s what “Mad Nads” has been doing while not representing her constituency and not speaking in the Commons … 
No doubt there will be a multiplicity of paid interviews for Nads and a huge fee for the rights to a drama series based on the book …
She seems to be developing a theory that dark forces were the cause of Johnson deciding that once again he decided that he’d blag and lie his way out of the partying accusations. I wonder how that works?
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We’ll have to wait for the book to be released and then someone to read it and find the answer … 
Nadine Dorries has been referred to the Conservative chief whip by the UK’s top civil servant over claims she sent “forceful” messages to officials.
Chief whips oversee discipline in political parties, while the Speaker presides over the House of Commons.
Tory MP and public administration committee chairman William Wragg, a frequent critic of Mr Johnson, asked Cabinet Secretary Mr Case if he was aware of “any rather forceful communications” sent by Ms Dorries “to senior civil servants”.Mr Wragg suggested Ms Dorries had threatened to use “the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn’t been given a peerage”.
Mr Case said: “Yes, I was aware of those communications and have flagged them to both the chief whip and Speaker of the House.”
Blimey … Nads is certainly mad about her missing peerage - she must be desperate to be Lady Muck … 
Ms Dorries received £20,500 as a partial advance for the book from HarperCollins.
I think we are about to pinpoint the absolute definition of “unwarranted self-entitlement”. Thanks Nadine for that useful contribution to our understanding of the finer nuances the English language.
A town council has urged former government minister Nadine Dorries to resign as an MP immediately over what they described as her “continuing lack of representation” for constituents. Flitwick Town Council in Mid Bedfordshire said there were “concerns” about her focus on TV work.
In a strongly worded letter, the councillors said: “The last time you spoke in the Commons was 7 June 2022. You have not maintained a constituency office for a considerable time and it’s widely understood that you have not held a surgery in Flitwick since March 2020. Rather than representing constituents, the council is concerned that your focus appears to have been firmly on your television show, upcoming book and political manoeuvres to embarrass the government for not appointing you to the House of Lords.”
The letter said Flitwick, that with a population of about 13,800 was the largest concentration of voters in the constituency, “desperately need effective representation now”.
“Flitwick Town Council calls on you to immediately vacate your seat to allow a by-election,” it added.
Quite right … Dorries is taking tax-payers money and doing nothing to earn it … 
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Dorries is yet another grifter - there’s been a lot of them coming out of the political woodwork in recent years - unfortunately we, the taxpayers, are her employers yet it seems we cannot sack her or stop her salary even though she hasn’t been turning up for work for a year - she shouldn’t be able to get away with skiving off work to go moonlighting.
Do we have to wait until there’s general election to force her out if she won’t stand down before then?
She’s taking the mickey now.
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Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is facing a move to force her out of Parliament if she fails to attend for six months. The proposals have been put forward by senior Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant.
Under his proposals, first reported by the Financial Times, Sir Chris said a motion could be tabled in Parliament requiring an MP to attend Parliament on a certain date. If they failed to do so he said this could be considered a “contempt of Parliament”, which can be punished with a suspension from the Commons. If MPs approve a suspension of 10 days or more this can trigger a by-election in the constituency, where voters have the chance to oust their local MP.
Sir Chris, who chairs the Commons standards committee, said the move had basis in a parliamentary rule from 1801 stating that “no member do presume to go out of town without leave of this House”. He told the BBC he wanted to see MPs held to the same standards as councillors, who automatically cease to be a councillor, triggering a by-election, if they fail to attend any meetings for six months without good reason.
“I just think this is bringing the whole system into disrepute,” he said. “Why should you be allowed to draw a salary and claim expenses for your staff and all that kind of stuff if you’re not actually doing the job of turning up?”
Asked if he would table a motion to oust Ms Dorries when Parliament returns in the autumn, Sir Chris said: “Maybe she’ll turn up on the first day back in September and take part in debates and so on. Or maybe she’ll resign… Let’s see what happens.”
Will they ever Dump the Dorries … 
John Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, told Sky News that the former culture secretary needed to formally announce her resignation so her constituents could be properly represented. Dorries said she was going to resign nine weeks ago after failing to secure a peerage in Boris Johnson’s honours list in June.
Glen told Times Radio that people were “bewildered” by her actions. He told Sky News: “I’m a bit bemused. She said that she was going to resign immediately, she hasn’t done so, and I understand the frustration of her constituents. If they can’t get access to her, then they’re going to be very disappointed in that.
“She needs to get on with it and she needs to make that decision real by announcing her resignation formally.”
Indeed she does … but, apparently, won’t … 