Louise Mensch Quotes

Whether it has been supporting Corby’s new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don’t have to say every Tory is in it for themselves – it’s pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

We’d all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn’t any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don’t worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

The nature of the internet is that you don’t know who is behind the screen.

That said, I can’t emphasise enough – and I hope you print this – that I absolutely don’t judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can’t break the laws you’re writing.