“I have forwarded your
email on to my lawyer”. Thus the last words in reply to the Mirror from (yes, it’s her again) Tory MP Nadine Dorries, who
has found herself in today’s paper for what, as a serving Parliamentarian, are
all the wrong reasons. But the response is typical Dorries: if in doubt,
threaten legal action. As if it will make a jot of difference to the Mirror.
The headline sums it up well: “Mystery
of Nadine Dorries MP, her millionaire landlord and the internet glamour model”,
although Sunday Mirror political
editor Vincent Moss has been positively restrained when describing Romanian
single mum Ramona Ladin (I say, is this
one of those joke names? – Ed) as a “glamour
model”. I reckon that it would be more accurate to call her a sex worker.
So what’s the connection? Simples. Nadine Dorries’ business partner Andy Rayment, who, with
his wife, owns the house she lives in, is also the business partner of Ramona
Ladin, and by mere coincidence also owns the house she lives in. The Dorries business, Averbrook, was the subject of
last week’s Standards Committee report which led to her having to apologise to
the Commons.
The business run by Rayment and Ms Ladin is called
Hairflair. Ramona is a qualified hairdresser (with an NVQ level 2, no less) who
visits her clients in her smart red BMW 1-Series. And if you delve a little
deeper, you find a fling.com profile that offers “Fetish, Groupsex, Sexual relations, Online flirting, Other”, which
suggests that the word “Blow” may not
in this case be coupled with “Wave”.
Nor, I suspect, does hairdressing necessitate “My new 32E boobs”. And, while many will
be hearing a young Eric Idle saying “personal
hairdressing, nudge nudge, wink wink, Say No More”, she says of Rayment “He is a really good family friend. If I need
something I will call him and he will help me”. As for the fragrant Nadine,
“She has a good heart ... She is my best friend”. Well, well.
So go on Nads, spin that one: “Andy and Ann Rayment are two of my closest friends. They own a large
number of properties in Bedfordshire which they let out. I do not believe I
have ever met anyone called Ramona Ladin. I do not believe that someone I
have no recollection of having met has told you she is my best friend”. Ho yus. And, as Jon Stewart might have said, two
things here.
One, she and
Ms Ladin can’t both be telling the right tale. And two, she
just told that Parliamentary Standards Inquiry this: “My business partners, who have nothing to do
with me personally—he is just a business partner, with his wife”. You can’t
be “closest friends” and have “nothing to do” with them at the same
time. So that’s a potential misleading of Parliament to boot.
There is more to come on this story. Good fun, but maybe not for Nadine Dorries.
2 comments:
I got blocked by Dorries for asking her why she lied to the PSC - she stupidly mentioned that Rayment was "related" to her, so that might be worth a sniff...
Is the dog in the picture,obviously being cared for by Dorries' daughter the one taxpayers had to fund the MPs excessive travel expenses for, as she didn't have the heart to be separated from the ageing Labrador ?
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