The town council in Nadine Dorries‘ Mid Bedfordshire district has called for her immediate resignation, claiming that she has been more concerned with ‘political machinations’ than with serving her citizens.
After failing to obtain a peerage in Boris Johnson‘s departure honours list, the former Cabinet minister declared her decision to resign as an MP last month, but she has not yet done so formally.
Due to her procrastination, Flitwick Town Council has written a stern letter to Ms. Dorries requesting that she “immediately resign your seat” due to their “concerns and frustration” with her preoccupation with her TV work and “political manoeuvres to embarrass the Government.”
The letter stated, “The last time you spoke in the Commons was June 7, 2022.”
It’s well known that you haven’t held a Flitwick surgery since March 2020, and you haven’t kept up a constituency office for a long time.
“The council is concerned that your concentration appears to have been squarely on your television show, future book, and political ploys to shame the Government for not sending you to the House of Lords, rather than representing citizens.
Council members highlighted that your actions “are not consistent with the Seven Principles of Public Life set out by Lord Nolan in 1995.”
They stated that Flitwick residents, who number about 13,800, represent those who “desperately need effective representation now.”
The main voting bloc in the constituency is made up of the 13,800 people who live in Flitwick.
Then they added, “Flitwick Town Council calls on you to resign your position immediately to make way for a by-election.”
On June 9, Ms. Dorries announced her resignation from Westminster, but a week later she changed her mind and said she would remain while she looked into the reasons why the former prime minister’s honours list did not include her for a seat in the House of Lords.
The steadfast supporter of Mr. Johnson holds a weekly chat show on Talk TV and is the author of The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, which is scheduled for release just before the Conservative Party convention in September.
Ms. Dorries has held Mid Bedfordshire since 2005, and the Conservative Party has held it usually since 1931.
The Tories just managed to hold onto the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat left vacant by Mr. Johnson last week after losing two by-elections last week in Selby and Ainsty and Somerton and Frome.
Mid Bedfordshire residents, according to Labour’s Alistair Strathern, are “sick of being taken for granted; they want proper representation and a local MP who puts them first.”
The interactions I have with people on the doorstep every day reflect the two-horse battle between Labour and the Conservatives, according to polling, he continued.
“The people of Mid Beds are ready for change, and I’m ready to speak up for them and be the most dedicated, approachable MP they have ever had.”
The locals are tired of being taken for granted by an absent MP and this Conservative government, said Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney, who termed the action “unprecedented.”
Nadine Dorries “continues to hold onto a job she has no interest in doing” as families in Bedfordshire struggle to get appointments with doctors and deal with skyrocketing mortgage prices.