Blogging MP uncovers Evil Olde Media Plot to destabilise Her Majesty's Government

I was listening to the radio this morning when I heard one Member of Parliament, Nadine Dorries, saying that the atmosphere in Parliament was so bad that a suicide was feared. (A later article in the same program pointed out that the public at large would be fairly happy with all the MPs heads' on poles, by the way).

Anyway, they mentioned that Ms Dorries had said this in her "Internet blog" - and that seemed interesting, to see what a Blogging MP may say. So off I trotted to her blog.....

Well!

I think she may have uncovered a dastardly plot as bad as Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up Parliament. Yes, the Torygraph newspaper is deliberately setting out to destabilise Her Majesty's Government! And this has all been deliberately timed to coincide with the European Election, and by casting aspersions on our Honourable Members, a Swing to the Right can be engineered. Sez Ms Dorries:

Parliament is in chaos. The public are angry. The Telegraph has upped its circulation.
There are 650 members of Parliament. In any walk of life, in whatever profession, you will find people who are dishonest. It will always be thus as long as we are all human!

The Telegraph are uncovering a few cases of fraud, but not enough, so they are more than slightly embellishing some of the stories. I write as a case in point.

Enter the Barclay brothers, the billionaire owners of The Daily Telegraph.
Rumour is that they are fiercely Euro sceptic and do not feel that either of the main parties are Euro sceptic enough. They have set upon a deliberate course to destabilise Parliament, with the hope that the winners will be UKIP and BNP.

A quick online check of the Barclay brothers and their antics on the Island of Sark is enough to give this part of the rumour credence.

Another rumour is that the disc was never acquired and sold by an amateur, but it was in fact a long term undercover operation run by the Telegraph for some considerable time, carefully planned and executed; and that the stories of the naive disc nabber ringing the news desk in an attempt to sell the stolen information are entirely the work of gossip and fiction.

These rumours do have some credibility given that this has all erupted during the European Election Campaign and turn out is expected to be high with protest votes, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, or should I say the Barclay brothers.

So there we are - of course, it would have helped her argument somewhat if our MP's had not been caught with their snouts in the trough (Swine Flue), and had not been trying hard to prevent the information about it all coming out. But let us assume there is honour among honourable members as well as thieves, and that even in venality there is some veritas:

Ms Dorries notes that not only is there this devilish plot, but the public are being played like puppets:

...the British public are being worked like puppets by two very powerful men. Whipped up into a frenzy to achieve exactly what they want.

His very poignant words to me were “if any of this conjecture is true, Parliament will become full of racists, fantasists, and has-been celebrities. We will be rendered impotent and may never again regain the authority to withstand the pressure, opinion and whims of the overtly wealthy.”

I must admit to sharing the same concern about a horde of has-been slebs now thinking of running as MPs, but its hard to argue that the present shower are any better. And the point about resisting the overtly wealthy is interestiung, but given the feathering of nests (and duckponds) the current process clearly hasn't worked either.

Still, next time the Big Media come out and attack bloggers about their lack of valuable journalism, we can point to this to show that a dire national plot to destabilise the Government was uncovered in the blogs first.