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Unintentionally hilarious post on Tory MP Nadine Dorries's blog.
She starts off having a go at the idea that MPs have too much holiday, arguing that the fact that they aren't sitting doesn't mean they have the time off:
‘MPs take 85 days holiday' is one example. I don't suppose the headline ‘MPs hammer the constituency work during the month of September' is really eye catching enough, but is the truth ever as good as the fiction?
Perhaps she has a point, you might think (and, in fact, as I do think). Then she writes this:
I am taking August off, as I do every year. The truth is that MPs of all parties work very hard on behalf of their constituencies and work very, very long hours in a stressful pressure cooker.
...I will be away all of August, like I am every year and unlike every other year, this time I won't be phoning the office twice a day as I have for the last four years. Those days are over. I'm taking a holiday. I need it, my family deserve it and I can't wait.
Taking all of August off?
How many people do you know who can disappear from work for an entire month?
Ah, but Ms Dorries works very, very long hours in a stressful pressure cooker. And none of the rest of us do, do we?
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