Friday, December 07, 2007

Don't Mess With Nadine!

In her blogpost today Nadine Dorries gives a real insight into how an MP handles constituency casework. It doesn't make pleasant reading for the Immigration Minister, Liam Byrne.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its good to see, in a time when politicians on all sides are dismissed out of hand, to see them working together in most circumstances. The conduct of the minister it seems, is in contrast to many other ministers. Hopefully the PM will kick them into touch.

This story in detail, brings credit to all politicians (except this particular minister), it is good to see people can work together.

Unsworth said...

Is this not how all politicians (should) operate?

The game is: If they (the Government) don't play ball, make life very unpleasant for them.

This is not a gentlemanly process. Probably hasn't been so for many years, if indeed it ever was. Embarrassment is simply a tool of the trade.

Anonymous said...

No mystery here.

Jack Straw has been an opposition MP. Liam Byrne has not - he's scarcely even been a backbencher.

Anonymous said...

Don't mess with Nadine...

'Cos Nadine don't mess..

Daily Referendum said...

Get in Nadine!

I hope Liam Byrne's next sh*t is an Hedgehog.

Anonymous said...

Though I hate Labour's governmental practise it is nice to see that some of them are human after all and thinking of how they can serve the public instead of serving the Labour party.

Everyone should read Matthew Parris's dynamite article on Union affiliations.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3019044.ece

Anonymous said...

Nadine says, ''This is England in 2007 and I have a child living in poverty in my constituency'.

Reeeeeeaaaaally!

Anonymous said...

Dorries is a ghastly woman, but in this instance she deserves praise.

Let's hope the publicity can bring about a swift resolution to this shameful situation.

John M Ward said...

The general view here, so far, seems to be that this is the way that politicians should operate.

I agree. Indeed, it is the way I operate (though I don't have access to behind-the-Speaker's-chair!) and have done on numerous occasions with various opposition councillors.

The way I handle it is comparable to Nadine's style, and I do get good comments and respect from many of those opposition members with whom I have dealt, at least for the duration...

It all depends upon for whom you are working -- self, party, or electorate/country. I wouldn't have stood for election on any basis but the last of those three, and my feeling is that most -- though not all -- elected folk are much the same in reality.

Anonymous said...

Daisy, Nadine was describing real poverty, where a child is living on the charity of kindly neighbours and the church. Not slappers in social housing who spend their child allowance on plasma screen TVs and beer and ciggies and feed their children by several different long-gone fathers on chip sandwiches.

Who sent you over here, incidentally?

Man in a Shed said...

People like Nadine make the case for representative democracy.

Anonymous said...

Incidentally, my own post makes a case for American-style food stamps. They will come, of course, as Britain eventually adopts every American protocol and habit.

Giving welfare recipients money is lunacy. I am baffled that taxpayers haven't resisted giving actual money to welfare recipients.

The Americans give them food stamps, meaning, these can be used at the supermarket for FOOD. So much value per food stamp. To keep the family alive.

In the US, people on food stamps cannot buy a Coke on foodstamps, never mind a beer or cigarettes. They can't buy soap or a toothbrush with foodstamps.

The programme is meant to keep people fed and alive. That's all.

Meanwhile, they are expected to look for work to get funds to buy their toothbrushes and shampoos, not to mention their beer and cigarettes.

Foostamps is not a career choice.

Anonymous said...

I agree, Home Office Minister Liam Byrne MP doesn't take his job seriously. He was on the BBC politics show with Andrew Neil a couple of weeks ago to answer questions about immigration figures. He couldn't answer many questions saying that he forgot to bring any data with him. How convenient. He laughed and laughed all the way through the interview. I noticed that Peter Hain did the same a couple of weeks before that.

Labour now have third rate (or worse) people in charge.

Time for a change.

Anonymous said...

I always thought that a child takes the mother's nationality in British Law. When did the law change?