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I promised you all another venture in the realms of MadNaddery and here it is…
First of all, to pick up the weekend’s events let me direct you to Bookdrunk who’s nicely covered all the relevant ground vis-a-vis the bullshit that’s appeared in the Daily Mail over the weekend…
nadine dorries: age shall not wither her (problem [...]

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If you wondering whether the radio silence over the weekend means I’ll be letting the MP for Mid-Narnia off the hook for trying to pull a Mourinho over the failure of her 20 weeks campaign and blame everything and everyone but her own abysmal antics then fear not, there’ll be a fresh bout of MadNaddery [...]

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Yes, its time for part two of my own look at the abortion debate as it played out in parliament, and time to get around to the ‘contribution’ of Nadine Dorries.
As our starting point we’ll take what Dave Cole has suggested will become the leitmotif for the entire debate, Dawn Primarolo’s withering assessment of Dorries’ [...]

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Well, today’s the day that Dizzy joins the mainstream according to Iain Dale:
Eleven days ago I asked a question about Phil Hendren, aka Dizzy Thinks. I said “Why hasn’t a newspaper signed him up yet?” Less than a fortnight later, Phil makes his debut in The Times comment section tomorrow with an excellent piece [...]

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Apropos of my previous post on the Tory’s deeply embarrassing data ‘loss’ in Crewe and Nantwich, further investigations have turned up what appear to be a number of unfortunate ‘anomalies’ in key records.
For one thing, its not at all clear exactly who is responsible for this data and whether it was even collected and processed [...]

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Iain Dale’s touting his new weekly slot on Telegraph TV:
This is the first episode of DALE’S TOURS, my new weekly slot for TELEGRAPH TV, in which I go round the country talking to Tory activists, councillors and candidates. It’s part of the RIGHT ON programme. This week I talked to Donald Potter, chairman of Crewe [...]

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Well it’s the morning afternoon after the night before and the Continuity IDS* spin operation was up bright and early today, so I guess we should get straight down to business and deliver a coup de grace** or two.
*Mike Smithson’s oh-so-beautifully-apt nickname for Conservative Home.
**Translation for members of the Quake/Doom generation… I’m going to gib [...]

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A much more sentimental character that your humble scribe might feel some sympathy for Nadine Dorries.  I’m sure she set out on her little crusade to restrict legal access to abortion full of optimism and here we are on the big day of the vote and what has she actually achieved?
A few puff pieces in [...]

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So there I am, checking out the latest blog chatter about Mad Nad and who should I run across but dear old Praguetory, who’s now getting his jollies by trying to bully university students.
You can check out the action over at the Birmingham University Labour Students blog, where Brigid, who’s a physicist and therefore immediately [...]

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I did wonder whether Iain Dale would have the bottle to stick his own head above the parapet on the HF&E bill, and particularly on the abortion-related amendments, as he certainly can’t be unaware of the pounding that his theatre-going mate, Nadine Dorries, has taken over the last couple of weeks.
And when he does come [...]

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