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Nadine Dorries accidentally tweets DM accusing Osborne of “bullying”

10:18am Mon May 14th

Tory insurgent Nadine Dorries has accused George Osborne of orchestrating a “bullying operation” against her. In a twitter message apparently intended as a DM and quickly deleted, the Bedfordshire MP references an incident in which a backbencher was seen leaving the Chancellor’s office – shortly before a number of colleagues viciously attacked her in a party meeting.

Hours after leaving Osborne’s office, Kris Hopkins led the attacks on Dorries in the backbench 1922 Committee, in which she faced cries of “treason”, “shameful” and “disgusting” — with one MP even saying she ”should be shot” for her disloyalty.

Directing her followers to the source in a Sunday newspaper, however, perhaps this was more “accidental” than accidental.

Is Nadine Dorries at war with her own party over boundary changes?

4:14pm Mon April 23rd

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Scrapbook concurs with Nadine Dorries’ description of Cameron and Osborne as “two arrogant posh boys” (video below). But with her seat of Mid Bedfordshire being vanished into thin air by the Boundary Commission, could aloofness to her own plight — rather than that of the hard-pressed families — be the driving force behind Nads’ outburst?

There is a view within Tory high command that the upcoming boundary changes prevent a valuable opportunity for gaffe-prone Dorries to spend more time with her healthcare fortune. Indeed, one Tory campaign strategist has been heard to utter:

“There are some interesting seats disappearing. Put it this way: no one is shedding any tears over Mid Bedfordshire.”

Nadine has been on the warpath over these changes for some months, telling the Boundary Commission in November that “These new proposals rip Mid Bedfordshire asunder.”

So has Nadine had a latent realisation that Dave and George are out of touch … or is she furious at being hung out to dry?

Nadine Dorries blocked from Queen’s diamond jubilee Speech

8:16pm Tue March 20th

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Nadine Dorries was blocked from entering Westminster Hall for the Queen’s 60th anniversary speech, Scrapbook can reveal. The Mid-Bedfordshire MP rocked up in all her finery, only to be turned away by security.

Looks like she forgot her ticket.

UPDATE (06:53) »She's now on Twitter claiming she got in via another entrance. Are there chimneys in the Palace of Westminster?

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Nadine Dorries: “Pay me to eat in taxpayer-funded restaurant”

10:00am Tue January 24th

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Mice running all over dining room..disgusting been that way for six years I have been here.*shudders* shld be paying us to eat here #trapped

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When outspoken Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries returned to Twitter, the Scrapbook team rejoiced in the knowledge that the abstinence-backing, abortion-reforming MP would provide much cannon fodder throughout 2012.

It didn’t take her long to deliver, with Nadine taking to Twitter to whinge about the state of the restaurants in the House of Commons, suggesting that despite generous public funding allowances, MPs should be paid to dine there.

Ironically, official figures reveal that we are paying Nadine to eat there. Her clueless rant comes despite taxpayer’s heavily subsiding parliamentarians’ menu, with £5.8m earmarked annually for MPs’ bars and restaurants. Analysis by the Telegraph revealed that for every £10 of food consumed in Parliament the public contributed £7.60.

As for the mice, doubtless Larry the cat charges very competitive rates.

Wikipedia edits from parliament airbrush Dorries sex abuse row

1:34pm Fri May 20th

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Nadine Dorries provoked a storm on Monday when she casually invoked the issue of child sexual abuse to shore up her chauvinist girls-only “just say no” proposals for sex education. It now appears someone using a parliamentary computer has edited Dorries’ entry on Wikipedia to airbrush the sorry affair from the record:

The alteration to the page, which was made yesterday afternoon from the parliamentary estate, removes references to comments that “we’d probably have less sex abuse” if girls were taught to “just say no”.

The IP address assigned to Houses of Parliament computers is associated with dozens of edits by bored staffers to MPs’ Wikipedia profiles, including details of John Bercow’s rumoured defection to the Labour Party and Anne Widdecombe’s cat. The site has also been the terrain of turf wars between competing MPs: campaigners for Sarah Teather and Dawn Butler were warned not to make edits on “subjects in which you are personally involved”.

It will take a lot more than Wikipedia edits to spin Dorries’ appalling record.

Nadine Dorries says child sex abuse victims should “just say no”

12:58am Tue May 17th

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All is not well on Planet Dorries. Two weeks after the Mid Bedfordshire MP introduced a sexist private member’s bill which would teach only girls the virtue of sexual abstinence and “how to say no”, Nadine has helped to advance the myth that child sexual abuse is linked to the behaviour of children.

On Channel 5′s Vanessa show on Monday she opined:

“If a stronger ‘just say no’ message was given to children in school then there might be an impact on sex abuse … if we imbued this message in school we’d probably have less sex abuse.”

So desperate is Dorries to bolster her abstinence agenda that she cheaply aligns the issue of teenage promiscuity with child abuse. Scrapbook will leave it to a genuine victim of childhood sexual abuse to outline exactly how offensive this is in a blogpost entitled “Nadine Dorries thinks I was asking for it”.

But with a majority of 15,152, we will all have to up with “Mad Nads” for the foreseeable future.

Chris Bryant tells Nadine Dorries: stop looking at sex magazines

11:56am Thu May 5th

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Yesterday saw family values Tory and serial fibber Nadine Dorries introduce her “Sex Education (Required Content)” bill as a Ten Minute Rule motion. The proposal would legislate for the mandatory teaching of abstinence to 13-16 year old girls (but not boys).

Providing comic relief to the scaremongering and straight out lies deployed by Dorries in support of the bill (and summarily demolished over at Liberal Conspiracy) was an intervention by Labour’s Chris Bryant. As Dorris complained of “sex magazines edging out the serious stuff” he interjected:

Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire) (Con): In fact, in some newsagents now there are more sex magazines available than any other kind of magazine.

Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab): Well, stop going to those shops then.

Photos of Dorries visiting such premises “for research” will be gratefully received.

The TV battle of the decade!

4:50pm Thu December 2nd

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UPDATE: Or perhaps not! Sadly, our source in the audience reports our pair “did not come to blows”. Dorries lives to lie another day.

UPDATE II: The programme did provide entertainment in the rodent-shaped form of Danny Alexander. Check out the video!

The Scrapbook team are banking on Ken Livingstone administering a richly-deserved televisual trouncing to compulsive liar Nadine Dorries on Question Time this evening.

With a field which also includes Danny Alexander, Sir Christopher Meyer and John Sergeant, Auntie is surely relying on the “Marmite politicians” to provide the fireworks.

With any luck we’ll have a “YouTube moment” to bring you in the morning.

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