Dorries throws down the gauntlet

One Tory MP and blogger Nadine Dorries has laid down the gauntlet for those attacking Caroline Spelman this morning.

The frenzied attack against Conservative MPs and MEPs, orchestrated by and emanating from the left wing BBC and press has equalled that of an animal in its death throes. The more terminal the position looks for Labour, the more desperate the BBC and left wing press become

she says adding

My daughter Jenny, who is 20, begins work for me this week for six weeks as a paid intern.
She told me I shouldn’t put what she earns on the blog as it is against her human rights. I told her that as an MP's daughter, she doesn’t have any. She is being paid £7.50 per hour.
She has superb computer skills and one of her first jobs will be to start working through a packing case of letters, cards and emails received following the abortion vote along with the full in tray ready and waiting on her desk.
If Michael Crick or any other journalist would like to check it out she is working from my staff office, just be our guest.

Nadine is Fisked

Thanks to Chris Paul for directing me to this analysis of Nadine Dorries speech in the Commons this week during the abortion debate.

Here is a taster

In short, a thoroughly disreputable and dishonest attempt was made to co-opt the language of equality in order to prevent abortions taking place at any time, but especially after 24 weeks, on the grounds of foetal disability. As this clause appeared, initially, on Dorries’ amendment it would be inconceivable to think that she would not have been aware of it or its purpose, unless she left the whole business of writing and tabling amendments to her new found Christian fundamentalist friend, Annette Minichiello Williams, and simply did pay attention to what was being tabled in her name.