As is quite obvious from the post itself, we are doing that too.

There was a fair bit of chatter about the apparent questionable status of her blog for quite some time before the complaint went in but as Sim-O rightly points out, its not her opinions on abortion that got people’s back up but her obvious contempt for the little ‘niceties’, like honesty and accountability.

If you want to trace the antipathy towards Dorries back to one incident, it’ll be the infamous smear on Ben Goldacre, where she abused her position as member of the ST&C to make a false allegation and then shut off her comments to prevent anyone calling her out over it.

It wasn’t her views on abortion that got people to make the complaint.
It was the fact that she lied and manipulated and decieved and spun that got people to complain.
For instance, just the latest incedence (sp?), ‘wondering’ how much of Parliaments time and money has been wasted looking into the complaint, when Dorries is wasting a far more time etc in a far more serious manner re-introducing a bill that has already been voted on and settled.

We (ha, look at me, ‘we’!) can handle Nadine having a difference of opinion, it’s just all the bollox surrounding it that winds people up.

Fair point and I accept that’s a good reason to go after her. But I can’t help but think that it was her views on abortion that incentivised people to make the complaint. That said, as someone who sympathises with her view on abortion, I think she’s an embarrassment and I’m glad DK and LC fisked her so thoroughly.

Wow, “petty”? I’ll remember how petty it all was when we stop bothering and just let external bodies with adequate funding dictate policy direction and MPs are freely able to spread their personal and party propoganda, in some cases with false authority, using our tax money…

Unfortunately, this is only an opinion and it means nothing until someone banks their reputation on it. Anyone want to have a go at it?

Anyone? Bueller?

Fundamentalist Christians do not do things like prattle on about their unique qualities as a Gemini:

(”Smart and witty. Outgoing, very chatty. Lively, energetic. Adaptable but needs to express themselves. Argumentative and outspoken. Likes change. Versatile. Busy, sometimes nervous and tense. Gossips. May seem superficial or inconsistent. Beautiful physically and mentally.”)
http://blog.dorries.org/Blogs/2008/Mar/14#14

I think the answer to your question, “So why does Dorries have close links with a group that describes itself as ‘fundamentalist Christians’?” is actually fairly obvious. She is one herself (or at least shares enough of their strange viewpoint to be a fellow traveller amongst the dens of the iniquitous).

And check out this classic move from Iain Dale. He’s actually demanding an apology from Sunny here for what he describes as a ’smear’:
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/09/sunny-hundal-nadine-owe-each-other.html

Even if one took Dorries at her word that she was let off the hook entirely (which is sure to be Iain’s defence if he ever mentions this again), any fair-minded person who had looked at the evidence would have considered that to have been through luck alone.

‘Smear’? Hardly.

The only smears here come from Dale and Dorries, who actually have the audacity to issue them while pretending to hold the moral high ground.

(Still, it could be worse. They are so made for each other, it is almost a certainty that if Dale weren’t homosexual and Dorries weren’t a long way past 40, these two would be married and making babies by now.)

But did you seriously expect any repentance, contrition, or admission of guilt from someone so clearly committed to their invisible friend?