Nadine Dorries - the "MP nurse-specialist"

Nadine Dorries

My worst nightmare has come true. Until today I was blissfully unaware of the existance of Nadine Dorries. I am not in the slightest grateful to the DK for drawing my attention to her presence and I had to increase my medication when I found out she was, wait for it, an “MP nurse-specialist”.

She has a propaganda website that she calls a blog. It is not really a blog because it does not allow comments. Reading some of her copy, I can understand why she does not allow them. She has just posted an article that plumbs new depths of mawk by purporting to show a picture of a happy 21 week foetus sticking its hand through a hole in the uterus, giving everyone a cheery wave and then making a campaign speech on behalf of the Pro-Life lobby. She calls it "The hand of hope."

I cannot be bothered to go through the spurious pseudo-science that Nadine seems to believe. If you want to see her article taken apart then you have a choice. You may read the DK’s “Mad Nad will believe anything” and “Nad still Mad” or, if you are of a more gentle disposition and prefer to avoid the bad language, turn to the ever excellent Ben Goldacre at Bad Science.

God knows, I am no fan of late abortions, and there is indeed a strong case to be made against them. But not like this. This is utter garbage.

It is worrying that a British MP can produce guff like this. Even more worrying is the fact that, judging from her David Steelish “let's prepare for government” post, Nadine seems to think she is going to be in the next Conservative Cabinet and so, even as we speak, she is furiously reading the Dorling Kindersley pop-up book “So you want to be a Cabinet Minister.”

It's enough to make a man vote Lib-Dem.