Check out the Sunday Mirror front page tomorrow. Mid Beds' most famous person (currently) is on it and it's not great reading. What no one, I think, has mentioned is that the MP for Mid Beds will have stuff in her diary for the next month which she will not be attending to. Parliamentary votes are actually a very small part of an MP's work and their absence, authorised or not can easily be covered.
But busy MPs have surgeries, meetings with local councils, discussions with ministers and visitors to Parliament to be getting on with. I assume all that has been put on hold, postponed or cancelled without notice.
There is an expression that politics is 'showbusiness for ugly people'. Well we can't deny the ugly people bit but showbusiness is another matter. All public decision making (aka politics) from parish council to national parliaments involves endless processing of information and discussion of minutiae. Its deadly dull, profoundly unsexy and there are few glittering prizes. We sometimes have people join and leave the parish council very quickly when they discover the revolution will have to wait till the next committee cycle. LOL
I reckon Nadine Dorries is after some glittering prizes and we may well see a Mid Beds by-election next year. Hopefully it will be someone, regardless of party who isn't headline chasing. And only goes to the jungle during their (ample) holidays.
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