Nadine Bargery-Dorries: Sideways Glance at Nads Smearing Tim

Yet another recording of Nadine being a complete and utter idiot. "Let him stay!" say the people of Mid Bedfordshire. "What's she hiding?" and so on. Very astute banter from audience members. You'll need to turn your monitor or your head or your mobile device on its side.

UPDATE: 10:16 Oh, alright then:



There will be other videos emerging no doubt and people will add links into the comments here. The GlaxoBabies story is very interesting. This was the contract, worth about a third of a million pounds for a year I understand that levered in a couple of other contracts and created the value in the Nadine and Paul company that allowed them to be sold to BUPA.

These were I understand three ONE YEAR contracts. Someone will work out or tell me perhaps how long they had to run when the sale to BUPA was completed. The price of that was rumoured to be £3 million. I have my doubts, (<- important comma) if BUPA knew contracts were so short. But again perhaps someone can work out the sale value, subtract any related borrowings and calculate or estimate what Nadine and Paul actually made.

Anyways, back to the story. Several sources tell me that prior to securing the Glaxo Babies contract our heroes were on their fat arses financially. Really desperate to win some business. Bigging themselves up no end. I'd be willing to wager my last shirt that rather like the CV provided to the Tories in 1999 for the 2001 campaign - risibly inaccurate (LOLs passim) - their pitch and company CV were flexed.

Among the flexes I'm told was a London Headquarters, near Victoria, shiny, impressive, reassuringly expensive. At around the time the Glaxo childcare contract was going through - possibly after heads of terms agreed, or even contract or heads of agreement memo inked - Glaxo suits asked to visit London office.

Oh dear! So what happened? According to sources Nadine and Paul parachuted a small staff and computer team in from their real office to a relatively shiny office nr Victoria, apparently instructed them to look busy - in a room with someone else's workers and PCs and phones and all that jazz - and greeted about four Glaxo suits on site. With the (real) Nads team told to make like busy busy busy.

Once the suits were gone the hustling bustling Nadine and Paul team dismantled their stuff and never again darkened the doors of said office. If this is true - and Nadine or Paul may like to make a statement - then it seems a pretty serious manipulation of the actualité.

Although Nadine and Paul seem to have blued away whatever they did receive with an extravagant lifestyle, a failed 2001 bid for parliament, school fees, frankly ridiculous GUCCI tat shop Gorgeous, and horribly bad large-scale property development disasters, the Glaxo contract and the BUPA sale were it seems the basis of their short-lived fortune, her parliamentary career, and aspects of the old CV e.g. "BUPA Director" (not quite correct) and "successful businesswoman" (ditto) and hence PPC and MP.

So Room 101 Question for Nadine and Paul:

Is it true that your childcare business - the only one of your businesses EVER to file accounts or returns - in the process of contracting to work for Glaxo and later to be sold to BUPA - piggy backed a London Office of third party or parties to impress Glaxo suits? And then The Real Hustle style dismantled the same and sodded off back to humble, real office?

Chorlton Mares: John Leech is Not Local Enough To Be Our MP

Mr Leech has never lived in the council ward he represented until recently. A car drive away he was. And he's never lived in the parliamentary constituency he seeks to represent. Another case of a car drive. No wonder he's to quote the Mail - fat and unfit! #bants. He's pretended he lives in our area. Oh yes. And he's even sent out a press release - taken up by his somethingly biased local newspaper - saying he was about to move "back" into the constituency. He did live here for a year or so to be fair. But the move story - more than two years ago now - was a complete con. It didn't come close to happening. He's not even been marketing his house most of that time.

Yet, extraordinary as it may seem, Leech has just launched an eleventh hour attack on the localness of one of Labour's council candidates.

What a plonker! Funnily enough his candidate - whose parents live in the ward in question - has been a student far far away throughout the campaign. Where you're wondering? In Salford perhaps? Preston? Keele? Oh no! His local "Chorlton" candidate has been a student in LONDON throughout the campaign. And the photo opportunities frenzy and little else that passed for a back story of "work" before that.

Leech actually lies and says his boy WORKS in the area. He's a sodding student Leechy. In London. Though he makes a bloody great mess with his pizza boxes in our area when he's home for Christmas. Do get a grip.

Our candidate lives all of a couple of miles away and may yet move in this direction. Though for the moment Leech is attacking a single mum with four kids. Local schools and childcare to sort out. But with a lovely extended family based in our ward.

Meanwhile voters who want a candidate who lives in Manchester Withington constituency must take Leechy the Hospital Hoaxer at his word and off your list. Just like our council candidate Amina Lone .. Mr Leech lives in neighbouring Gorton Constituency!

Ms Nadine Bargery Dorries Mum-P is on the Way Out: Doing the Fritiwick, Doing the Flitwick, Doing the Flitwick Flounce

After the General Election we'll be continuing our study of the runnings of Ms Nadine Bargery-Dorries Mum-P. But this hideous smearage won't wait. Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads volunteered to help out a local voluntary organisation in Flitwick who had organised a hustings for the Mid Beds contest. Tim would help by recording the event and providing a copy for the organisation to place on their own website.

He used his own name throughout the arrangements. Nadine's face is a picture when the name is announced before concluding, as you would, that because he was not the antipodean Tim Ireland "of Croydon" he must be some other antipodean "Tim Ireland". There are loads of those about the place.

Volunteer videographer Tim Ireland had gone through everything with the organiser. He would make a VT for keeps in a reasonable resolution, and stream something a bit shoddy on the internet as things proceeded. And a bit shoddy is what they got! Them t'internet people.

Just watch it. There is a show of hands, a misunderstanding or three, a muddle, a "reveal" and denouncement, and finally a Flitwick flounce. At which point I understand from third parties that Nadine only blamed and smeared me in her twitter steam of doodooness. Naturally I was supporting the Konnie Huq family and the Gordon Brown family at a Labour #gordonflashmob in Manchester.

Bursting to tell the tales of Nadine's GlaxoBabies contract. Perhaps later. If she gets re-elected Nadine will be a little pocket timebomb on Cameron's back benches. We did warn the Conservative leader. But she seems to have the poor blighter bewitched.

Gordon Brown: Every Voter Should See This Before 6 May

#LibDemFlashMob: Scores Out of Doors, #FlashDownThePan

Above is the Cambridge Lib Dem Flash Mob page as it stood with three hours to go at 12 noon. Perhaps they've gone onto to cells of two and a need-to-know basis.

If rather than "I Agree With Nick" you think "Nick Makes Me Sick". If you know in your heart of hearts that the "Cult of Nick" spells CON you may find the following statistics encouraging. Truro Lib Dems might like to convert the event to a how to you fit four Lib Dem activists in a mini gag. Two on the left. Two on the right. Natch.

The more Lib Dem activists travel for hours to one of these events the better I'd like it to be quite frank. Keeps them from under our feet. So as Ann Widdecombe might say: "Buck up you Lib Dems, buck up". Others might rhyme but be less kind.

Scores out of doors:

NEWCASTLE Flashmob: 17

LONDON Flashmob: 354

TRURO Flashmob: 4

CAMBRIDGE Flashmob: Cancelled

MANCHESTER Flashmob: 19

CARDIFF Flashmob: 12

BIRMINGHAM Flashmob: 17

GLASGOW Flashmob: 13

DERBY Flashmob: 18

BRISTOL Flashmob: 29

Comment of the Day:

Bethany Lowe
Just looked up the 'I am Spartacus' reference, and I geddit now! I hope we don't all end up crucified tho!!!

Contempt for Democracy: Lib Dem Incumbents Swerve Hustings

UPDATE Mon 20:30: The Crescent Radio debate that Paul Rowen jilted actually occurred during the afternoon and not last evening as stated. The management at Crescent Radio appear to have been put under the impression that Rowen has the power of life and death over them when it comes to renewal, and can er pull the plug on their station. Which ain't quite right. And, we hear, Wera Hobhouse - the LD super-sub - threatened to WALK at half time, such was the animosity towards Rowen. "I am not answerable for Paul Rowen" she said OWTTE. Which is odd as that was the job she had been given to do.

Radio Four's You and Yours this morning included a caller pointing out that Paul Rowen - as Council Leader - sold the town's market for a quid. Not popular. Even the Tories in the Town are now thinking they're better off with Labour! And Crescent Radio's audience has certainly been given a clue as to the respect Rowen has for them.

Now read on ..

John Leech has missed two of the four main hustings/information events in Manchester Withington constituency, and arranged a third on an evening when he was certain Lucy Powell, the Labour challenger could not attend. In fact he has condescended to appear in only one serious debate with a large audience and excellent potential for planted questions, organised heckling and getting away with his rather feeble achievements.

The first event Leech swerved was an RSPB discussion - with similar held all over the country - attended by the four main parties. And given that this was before nominations closed these were the only four known certain candidates. Honest John Leech gave two different reasons for his swerve to two different interest groups who asked.

First, he disingenuously blamed election regulations and Labour. Claiming that the regulations could require him to count part of the cost of the meeting in his election expenses return. Actually not necessary where the known candidates are all invited. And actually sending a Sub to represent him (Wera Hobhouse) would surely mean he should include a notional cost anyway? If it were true. And to this he added the news that his expenses in 2005 had been challenged by Labour and he wanted to be above reproach.


Although his submission was ridiculous and he had clearly overspent I did not officially challenge this myself, I didn't live in the constituency then. I don't know that anyone did. Certainly I can find no sign of any challenge via the Electoral Commission and I don't think I even got a reply when I tried an FoI request for any and all such complaints. I did ridicule his very ridiculous return in letters to local papers.

Second, and far more likely, was Leech's story as given to the Politics Society at the University of Manchester Students Union. Honest John told them, speaking of the same event, that he had sent a sub because he (thinks: had a contempt for democracy and) wanted to stymie any and all opportunities for Lucy Powell to appear on the same platform, giving her equal status. Leech also swerved a Churches Together event without advising the organisers of his absence. Though as none of his cronies were there this did seem a premeditated slight.

What an indictment of Lib Dem blether on being a new broom.

The Rochdale incumbent Paul Rowen, another Libdemologist first termer and sometime two-jobber councillor and MP, has also been swerving. Not sure he's done a single hustings or information meeting. Tonight he was booked to discuss his ideas with Mudasir for the Cons and Danczuk for Labour in a Radio Crescent programme.

This being a station in the immediate area, targeted at muslim families. He failed to show up .. and he too sent Wera. This has been a particular problem for the station. They have fallen in with his demands that they don't give his opponents (much) publicity for years. And now, when everyone and their dog whistles is talking about Rochdale and immigration, he has completely ducked their timely event.

Similarly he missed the Palestine debate at the last Lib Dem conference. Apparently because he'd had a big drink the night and early hours before and was under the weather. And he missed another community events to discuss this situation too. At Castlemere. Wera was there .. but it was his former aide Dave Hennigan (below) who made a scene and tried to participate. He had been banned for disrespecting the community. And Rowen eventually sacked him for being such an embarrassment - though he's still lurking about the scene. Secret agent Hennigan?



Rowen missed that community debate, breaking a promise to the Castlemere Centre and local muslim voluntary organisations because he was en route to Europe on a jolly .. where he failed to speak in the right debate in any case. But likely had a good time, rich food, fine wine, trappist beer, and hale fellow well met all round.

The tweets within this post summarise much of the above. Click to enlarge. Read from bottom up, insofar as it matters. I love twitter. Follow me.

Just For Fun: John Leech's Achievements? What Rubbish!

Fortunately I'm not in control of the election material we're putting out in Manchester Withington on behalf of our marvelous candidate Lucy Powell in the fight to win back the hearts and souls of the people of Manchester Withington.

Obviously this is for good reason. If I knew my arse from my elbow when it comes to electoral communications I'd be - at the very least - an Executive Member in a major council, if not a Junior Minister in the government of a major country.

As it is - largely thanks to a lack of political ambition plus, once persuaded to offer myself for service, a ridiculous war, thanks Blair - I am now a simple swear blogger, a stringer for various newspapers and websites, a sometime candidate in unlikely ward contests and an apparatchnik for a world famous polling company. All interesting offers considered.

However. It must be said that if I ruled the world I'd be generally blowing Leech's shoddy lying fibbing Lib Dem material out of the water and rebutting his twaddle with an immediate and great jerk of the knee. Probably though that would just encourage him.

As a very small concession, and in a personal capacity only, just for fun, I am willing to take a look at his Postal-Vote-me-me-me leaflet with an objective eye.

Even if Leech's claims were right this would be INCREDIBLY THIN. The con-some-eh of a Sad Cafe. Achievements that a back bench councillor would expect to achieve after a year or two of bedding in. Leech was a councillor for a good few years. And then became MP. Continuing as a councillor for three years of double-dipping. He's clearly lagging reasonable expectations by years and years.

Above right is one side of the leaflet he enclosed with a covering letter in an envelope to postal voters, arriving only yesterday. I'd already voted.

Lower right is my (strictly personal, and never to be seen on paper) point by point rebuttal of his feeble achievement claims. Is that it? Goodness me! you've been a crap MP John Leech, you really have. Goodness me. Click on images to enlarge.