Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "readings and comments from Nadine Dorries -her novel is a hoot actually" video.

  1. I read some excerpts from this, (soon to be pulped, or bought up in bulk by her mates) “memoir.” These are NOT the Alan Clarke or Tony Ben diaries, are they? Not actually interesting, insightful, funny, witty, or revealing anything about the machinations of Westminster that we didn’t already know, or hadn’t guessed at. Let’s face it? You KNOW as soon as any scene is set up, exactly how it’s going to play out, in the same way that you know how an adolescent’s self justifications are going to play out, when they air their unedifying grievances on Twitter about some group of, “Mean Girls,” they recently fell out with over a boyfriend! In terms of fabulation, she has more in common with Geoffrey Archer. And that utterly disingenuous pretence that she’s quoting from her diaries, as written at the time, when everyone and their pet knows that she’s making it all up after the fact, to fit a 20/20 hindsight, that somehow still manages to be factually skewed, simply because her book is NOT a great, “revelation,” at all. It is the squalling of an angry toddler, who, “took her bat and ball home,” when she was refused her gong (the one decision of Sunak’s that I can get behind) and who will do anything to stay in the limelight to which she has become so addicted. Just one more shrill screech of attention seeking and sour grapes from an intellectual midget who has had far too much attention already. It’s way past her bedtime and I dearly wish someone would just put her out of our misery.
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  2. You mean there was an adult in the room? And that was the best they could come up with? From the excerpts I read I’m expecting this thing to either be pulped in the coming weeks, or (more likely) bought up in bulk by her, “friends,” to save her embarrassment.
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