Attack of the foot-in-mouth woman
Monday, December 3, 2007
Since the inception of this weblog, none of Nadine's supporters have dropped by to comment. That's to be expected, even if they exist (see #1 below) but none of the personal abuse she claims to have received has emerged either. In fact, the only example of this that's appeared so far was published on an anonymous weblog by one of her 'supporters' and - amazingly - was directed at Nadine Dorries in order to make her claim to victim status more credible.
1. I don't think it's unfair to surmise that - like many of the newer Tory bloggers pretend-bloggers - Nadine Dorries has been:
a) writing positive comments on her own weblog
b) classifying negative comments as personal abuse (in order to justify their deletion)
c) inventing personal abuse and/or making false claims of personal abuse in order to support her case
d) all of the above
2. It has also become clear that:
a) while claiming to be the victim of personal attacks, Nadine Dorries has cut loose with some rather extraordinary attacks herself
b) while being swift to demand apologies from others, Nadine Dorries refuses to apologise herself, even when she is clearly in the wrong
- Nadine Dorries falsely accusing Ben Goldacre of involvement in a "serious breach of parliamentary procedure"
- Nadine Dorries suggesting none-too-subtly that Alex Hilton* might be a paedophile
(*What Recess Monkey did was wrong, but it would now appear that he was set up... probably by the same people who were at the time also publishing the personal attacks that I mention above.)
3. I've also noticed that - during those times when I'm too busy to mirror her output and open it up to comment - Nadine suddenly becomes more vocal on her own 'weblog'.
So the purpose and function of this weblog will now change.
This weblog will no longer mirror Nadine Dorries' output and invite comment.
It will instead document those instances where Nadine lashes out with baseless/malicious accusations and petty/personal abuse.
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Nadine experiences genuine blogging shock
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Today, Nadine Dorries announced that she would be guest blogging at The Cornerstone Group weblog. A permalink to the item, that Nadine does not publish herself, is here.
Here's hoping that she enjoys the novelty of individual entry pages, functional permalinks and inline comments so much that she introduces these features herself.
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Reassess Recess [Feedback version]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Reassess Recess was posted by one of Nadine Dorries on Monday, 19 November 2007 at 11:25
Readers of this website are invited to comment on this entry here, as they are not permitted to do so at Nadine Dorries' half-a-blog.
Reassess Recess
Unfortunately, today’s blog is a rebuttal in defence of my family. As an MP I don’t mind it if people want to take a pop at me – it comes with the territory. However, not my kids.
Every young person I know has a Facebook profile, my daughters are no exception and use it to keep in touch with their friends. Unfortunately Alex Hilton, aka Recess Monkey, had no scruples about trawling through my daughter’s profile in order to damage her reputation.
My daughter’s face book account was the No 1item on his web site for a number of days.
A comment on my daughter’s site had been left by one of her best friends Chido Kawunda. Chido used the ‘N’ word when discussing this year’s Big Brother incident with Charlie.
Alex Hilton attempted to insinuate that the comment was made by my daughter in a derogatory way about black women. This is definitely not the case – ask Chido; and by the way, the issue is now on it’s way to Simon Smith at Schillings , to ask his advise as to whether or not this matter is libel and actionable. [link]
I suppose one wouldn’t expect anything else from the researcher of a Labour MP. It makes you wonder what kind of MP employs a person who spends his day going through Facebook accounts. Is this done on a Parliamentary computer I wonder? One paid for by the tax payer, in the time he should be working, again, paid by the tax payer?
It is not lost on me that he chose to highlight the Facebook account of my 22 year old daughter. However, has he been through the Facebook accounts of all of my girls? One of them is only 15 – and if he has – there’s a word for people like you Alex.
Take me on all you want, but mess with my kids…..
Here, for your reference, is a link to the relevant post by Recess Monkey, a later regret, and his response to Nadine's post (mirrored above).
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Back with Feedback
Nadine Dorries: Feedback was down for about a week due to computer problems, that unit's eventual repair and then replacement, plus interference from 'supporters' of Nadine Dorries, some of whom then decided it would be a constructive to create an anonymous website containing just the kind of venomous, personal attacks that Nadine Dorries (eventually) claimed to be the victim of.
While the interim feedback facility was out of action, Nadine was quite chatty on her blog, and the following is a run-down of what has been missed:
Nov 10 - I need a wife!: Nadine blogs on the challenges of balancing wild parties and solemn ceremonies with shopping, laundry, the dishes, the floors and walking the dogs. She closes by saying "I need a wife....."
Nov 12 - Mid Beds Annual Dinner: Nadine posts a photo of herself, her daughters and other guests with John Major at a party. She informs us that her intern Stephanie responded to the toast "My Lords ladies and gentleman – the Queen" by saying; "Omigod, is she here, where?"
Nov 13 - Friday night pre dinner drinks and prep!: Nadine posts a photo of herself, her daughters and other guests from *before* that same party. Sitting on a bed and drinking champagne.
Nov 14 - Rocket Science?: Nadine announces that she is now a member of the Innovation University and Skills Select Committee. While never experiencing university herself, she feels confident that "(we need) fewer universities, not more and that half of the courses on offer should be scrapped." She presents as evidence an invitation for us to "walk around any halls of residence at the moment and spot the unhappy students."
Nov 15 - Posh Nosh: Nadine dashes from an audio interview to a posh lunch.
Nov 16 - Posh Nosh Part 2....: Nadine tells us of a potato-in-cleavage moment involving Andrew Rawnsley of the Observer and The Sunday Edition and a woman with "generous assets". She closes by promising some background to ITV's decision to axe the Sunday Edition. Ahhh, sweet discretion....
And that, minus one extraordinary outburst that demands its own mirror, brings us up to date and back online. Prepare to speak your brains.
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Labels: comments, housekeeping, parliament, single life
Moderation activated
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Because I'll be away from Teh Interwebs for most of tomorrow, comment moderation has been activated to:
a) prevent the publication of libel/abuse designed to hurt Nadine Dorries
b) prevent the publication of libel/abuse designed to help her continue to play the victim.
Safety first. Cheers all.
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Bug Stops Blogging [Feedback version]
Bug Stops Blogging was posted by one of Nadine Dorries' assitants on Thursday, 8 November 2007 at 15:00
Readers of this website are invited to comment on this entry here, as they are not permitted to do so at Nadine Dorries' half-a-blog.
Bug Stops Blogging
Unfortunately, Nadine is ill today due to a nasty bug and regrets that she will not be blogging.
(The Office of Nadine Dorries MP)
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Step away from the husband [Feedback version]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Step away from the husband was posted by Nadine Dorries on Wednesday, 7 November 2007 at 09:27
Readers of this website are invited to comment on this entry here, as they are not permitted to do so at Nadine Dorries' half-a-blog.
Step away from the husband
As I waited to pre-record an interview in Millbank, I listened to the Jeremy Vine show through the headset. The topic of discussion was loneliness and grief following the death of a loved one.
Tony Benn contributed in the understated and pragmatic way he always does, when speaking about a lifetime of devotion to his wife Caroline.
Many people phoned in and told their stories of how they felt after a partner had died after ten, twenty or fifty years, as though grief is measured in degrees of severity, the longer you were together before someone died, the greater the grief.
Every week I hold the hand of someone in my surgery who has lost a partner. Someone they loved. Not only through death, but through divorce or separation. Someone who finds themselves in a situation they never thought they would be in.
Many unable to cope with the daily practical problems which threaten to overwhelm them because they are consumed by grief and unable to focus on the day to day tedium of life.
All I can do is hold their hand, and in an attempt to stem the tears, find the right words of comfort and hope.
For me personaly, the most difficult part of being divorced is becoming single.
I manage by submerging myself in work from morning until night, but always in politics, the social side rears its head and I have to brace myself to attend yet another drinks party, alone.
It never ceases to amaze me how many women suddenly fall madly in love with their husbands as I am taken over to be introduced.
They may not have held their husbands hand for weeks, but will be seized by a sudden urge to hang on to his arm, hold his hand and brush back the imaginary stray hairs from his almost bald head as they talk to me.
Her body language yells through an imaginary loud hailer ‘step away from the husband, he’s mine’!
I want to say stop, don’t worry, he has a pot belly, bad breath and a face only his mother and apparently you could love. You really aren’t in any danger of me or any other single woman running off with your clinically obese husband, he really is all yours.
But of course… I don’t.
It’s enough to see the sudden involuntary arch of his eyebrows as he laps up attention from the wife who forgot who he was until five minutes ago.
I never spend too long talking to couples, it's never that comfortable - but as I walk away I always want to turn around and say, "you should fall asleep holding his hand every single night. You should hold his hand often, every single day, because you're very very lucky".
But of course….. I don’t. I walk away and over to the next couple....
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