Louise Mensch, the thickest MP in Westminster (see here, here, and here) and also the author of a series of novels which are an insult to basic human intelligence has announced that she is standing down as an MP and moving to New York. Our gain, America’s loss. But she cannot leave without talking more rubbish.
She told her local newspaper that she is quitting to spend more time with her family because she cannot juggle the various demands, bla, blah, blah. Like remind me just how many weeks holiday a year MPs get? It makes you wonder how the rest of us get by. But then the paper, in a clearly spoon fed release notes:
The author recently launched her own social networking site menschn.com, as a rival to twitter where she has 100,000 followers. She is now expected to concentrate on building the popularity of the site.
We shall leave aside the fact that most of Mensch’s twitter followers are by her own admission ‘bots since even by the low standards of twitter her own thoughts are too inane to attract real followers. Louise appears to want to have her cake ( and fear not Louise I am not using the word in the rap sense, we know that you have moved on since then) and eat ( not snort) it. Either you are quitting politics to spend more time with the kids or to spend more time with Mensch.com and, no doubt producing more crimes against humanity in the form of your novels.
Frankly I do not care. I shall not be reading her next novel. Like almost everyone else on this planet I shall not be using Mensch.com. But for once cannot a politician be honest? Will she spend more time with the kids now that she is bored of playing at being an MP, or more time Mensching or whatever her form of tweeting is called? Just tell the frigging truth. Is it that hard?
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