Taken from YouTube, with grateful thanks to “TheAslanOfNarnia”…
And it looks like it’s gonna be another sleepless night.. This is the third night in a row I havent slept. I last had insomnia during the election and the agonising days after it while the nation awaited its fate. During that time myself and several others tweeted to each other via @tchee ‘s #1amclub . We passed the time sharing music, “passing drinks” and @tchee would “hand round a plate of Ferrero Rocher”. One night we danced on the bar and I even got @tim_mullen to dance with me : )
I digress.. the reason for my being awake in the not so small hours has a name, that name is Nadine Dorries. Since her vicious comments seemingly aimed at me but taking a swipe at all disabled and unemployed, I have been filled with what I can only describe as poison. It makes me shake. I can feel it in my blood, churning in my stomach, it is of course stress. Stress has also tensed up my back and neck muscles leaving me in tremendous pain but also giving me headaches and vertigo. My feet have been up all day but they hurt too. I would take some medicine to relieve the muscles but I know they will make me dopey tomorrow. Therefore I sacrifice my sleep in order to be alert as I know that there is still work for me to do.
Right now though, I want to thank you Twitter, all of you. Whether you RTd a link, wrote a blog post, tweeted a comment or commented on a blog post, even if you simply read one of them.. thank you. I have had the most amazing support this week. I have not been able to confide in family or friends about this, they wouldn’t understand and would be frustrated and upset on my behalf, they also have their own problems to deal with. Thank you for being there for me and for listening.
Now, about this blog. Please believe me when I say that I am not showing off , I didn’t make this happen – YOU did.. There have been over 6000 views of the blog in just 2 days. * That is incredible. So many people have been affected by this issue, the blog statistics are testament to that. Could I ask you to help me again though? Please support the vulnerable, help their voices be heard. Fight to stamp out ignorance, discrimination and bullying. Keep this topic trending until the media finally take notice. Together we are formidable as Ms Dorries must by now be aware. Her brag of only 50 or so constituents hearing about this must now sound foolish, even to her closed ears.
Tonight, as I lay awake thinking about Nadine Dorries and the effect she has had on my life this week, I wonder if she too is laying awake thinking the same about me?
*Since I posted this article, the blog stats went crazy as you can see.. now over 12.000 in less than one week.. thank you so much Twitter for taking notice!
Nadine Dorries’ discriminatory remarks on her blog yesterday Twitter Obsession and Guido Expose were not only mis-informed and inflammatory but extremely offensive to the people they were aimed at. Here are a selection of blog-posts and other articles written in response to the “Honourable Lady” (Freeze pages courtesy of @dnotice )
Post by @charonqc – Nadine Dorries MP – a sufferer of *kneejerkitis*, *callousitis* or just *stupiditis*?
Nadine Dorries on “Nutters” via @serialinsomniac
@Mr Neurosceptic http://nocturnal-emissions.posterous.com/29688775
On Dorries, Harris, Cushion and Japanese Prisoners of War…….. via @lindylooz
I’m Close To Despair Is It Just Me!?! via @DisabilityXpe
The displeasure is all mine (and the thousands of others) via @Joanne_C
Future notes http://alligin.tumblr.com/
@Hellsbells265 “Why is Nadine Dorries so belligerent? “
@credo “It’s time for Nadine Dorries to stop saying things, in public”
Nadine Dorries Takes Revenge on Twitter Critic: Uses Paul Staines to Push Smear by Richard Bartholomew
Another crack of the whip from an ignorant Tory by Cathy Reay
Why Nadine Dorries posts about Twitter were worse than you think by Dick Mandrake
Ms Cushion’s Misfortune by Richard Lyle
Frequent tweeting doesn’t make one a benefit cheat, Nadine Dorries Guardian article by Lucy Glennon
The Honourable Member Should Know Better.. by @Splottdad
Twitter, Disabled People, and Benefit Fraud? on Disability Voices by Writer in a wheelchair
And In Other News by Mr Plug a fellow constituent
Sit in the corner and keep quiet. Lessons disabled people can learn from Nadine Dorries. by @mindinflux
Why Nadine Dorries is wrong – aka Twitter saved my sanity by Caron
She simply doesnt know when to stop by @thespiderplant
How I let Nadine Dorries get me down by @bridgetorr
Dorries, Disability and Benefit from Journal of Medical Ethics blog
Threats and Fear. by Incurable Hippie
What do you think Mr Cameron? by @samedifference1
Wrestling Emily Dickinson via @adamfishpoet
Just mind your own damn business Nadine Dorries by @HarpyMarx
Tory MP: Disabled shouldnt tweet or go to the pub by the real daae
Nadine Norries and the perils of saying too much by Beatrice Bray
Please let me know if I have missed any…
Today as been quite eventful. It all started when I saw a tweet that Tony Curtis had died RIP. In his honour I asked Twitter which avatar I should wear for a “tweetalongasomelikeithot” in the afternoon.. My Gangster, Captain or the Drag Act one I made for #altff (alternative follow friday).? Twitter chose the Drag Act.. Ivana S Uckuoff as she is fondly known ; )
I never got to have the tweet-a-long in the end sadly as I was distracted rather by Nadine Dorries’ latest blog post… here it is in full:
Twitter Obsession
Is there such a thing as Twitter addiction? How can anyone live a normal life who can do that? Surely these people cannot be in employment because if they are, how can they work? if they aren’t then it’s time they got a job which involves being sat at a key board because there’s nothing much up with their fingers, brain or attention span!!
I wonder if very soon someone is going to identify a Twitter syndrome and we get to read about people who have become compulsive Tweeters. Will we hear stories of people who Tweet, oh I don’t know, say 50 times a day and need to go into re-hab?
I will put money on that being a Daily Mail story one day. In the meantime, do you know of anyone else who has Tweeted more than 35,000 times in less than six months? If so, email my office and let me know. Or, better still, if it’s someone you know is on benefits, contact the DWP.
For a laugh, I tweeted that oopsie, she’s caught me.. what followed is in equal measure hilarious and disturbing.. http://order-order.com/2010/09/30/nadines-twitter-scrounger-expose/#comment-737859
And what would the charming Ms Dorries make of her Chairman replying to Mr Ireland in such a manner and John Balls ridiculing both Ireland and Linda Jack you might ask? This is her extremely dignified response…
Taken from the gob sorry blog of Ms Dorries.. link here : http://blog.dorries.org/arc-2010_September.aspx
No, this is not a post about Ed Balls who managed a very credible third place yesterday’s Labour Leader election. Well done Sir *proud*, but this is not about you, its about another…. the name’s Balls, John Balls…
John Balls writes a “Diary” for my local rag, The Beds on Sunday.. this is what he wrote this week, published today: